Re: I think I may have found a possible dos attack vector within bash.

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Am 20.03.2012 18:04, schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:47:51PM +0000, Eamonn Smyth wrote:
> > Without sounding alarmist, I can break my machine using bash. I also have a
> > fix. I shall be officially releasing the c code this weekend at the
> > hackathon london.
> You included some C++ code (or possibly C code, if you're allowed to
> declare variables after the start of a block now).  But I don't see any
> bash commands.  How exactly is bash involved with your code or the bug
> you found?
ANSI c99 adopted c++ flexibility with variable declaration. though I 
still consider it bad practice to rely on it needlessly.