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_y4o5
on April 27, 2017
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A bug in GCC that may cause memory leaks in valid ...
Exploited by who? The programmers ?
tacostakohashi
on April 27, 2017
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The users. Anybody who can connect to a server implemented in C++ can compiled by a gcc with this problem.
matheweis
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I think it's not quite that severe; anybody who can connect to a server implemented in C++ that is compiled with gcc
and initializes objects in the way described here
could exploit the bug.
mbrubeck
on April 27, 2017
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And the initialization needs to conditionally throw an exception based on user input.
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