POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : update, updates, updates : Re: update, updates, updates Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:34:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: update, updates, updates  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 18 Jan 2013 14:34:38
Message: <50f9a3ce$1@news.povray.org>

> (I suppose that if you use a signed *long* in a 64-bit system where longs
> are 64-bit, then expanding a signed 32-bit int to such a signed 64-bit long
> will result in the wrong value. But was that the case here?)
>

While this one 
(http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0894) didn't use 
negative offsets, only out of bounds indexes that weren't checked by the 
programmer.

This one, did use negative indexes:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0986
More details: http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2008030020

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