GNU bug report logs - #20998
Out of bounds global read in shred / genpattern()

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Hanno Böck <hanno <at> hboeck.de>

Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Hanno Böck <hanno <at> hboeck.de>, 20998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20998: Out of bounds global read in shred / genpattern()
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:30:33 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Nice one!

Yes, very nice.

> It looks like the restriction to the k patterns available
> was lost with v5.92-1462-g65533e1 and that this should
> fix it up.

And thanks for the fix; it looks good to me too.
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