NULL ptr dereferences found with Calysto static checker
Gert Doering
gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Jun 21 19:58:07 EST 2007
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:47:59PM -0700, Domagoj Babic wrote:
> Please see
>
> localtime/gmtime in
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html.gz
Indeed, on GNU systems, this can happen:
"The return value is the null pointer if time cannot be represented as a
broken-down time; typically this is because the year cannot fit into an int."
- so, OpenSSH will break in the year 4294967297. Damn.
gert
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