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Potential Out-of-Memory in coreutils od

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Message #14 received at 78879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jaehoon Jang <jaehoon.jang <at> prosys.kaist.ac.kr>, 78879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78879: Potential Out-of-Memory in coreutils od
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:56:29 +0100

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On 23/06/2025 09:21, Jaehoon Jang wrote:
> Potential Out-of-Memory Risk in coreutils od Due to Inadequate Argument
> Validation for -w Option
> 
> *Description*
> ```
> $ src/od -w0 /bin/ls
> Aborted
> ```

Well we shouldn't be aborting at least.

The attached patch should avoid that.

thanks,
Padraig

[0001-od-output-standard-diagnostics-for-invalid-w-argumen.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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