[erlang-patches] [PATCH] ei: integer overflow in string/atom encoding

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:55:19AM -0400, Michael Santos wrote:
> ei_encode_atom() and ei_encode_string() use strlen() to get the length
> of the buffer. As strlen() returns an unsigned long long and both ei
> functions take a signed integer, the length fields may overflow.
> 
> Check the results of strlen can be held in a signed integer.

Thank you. I have included your patch into 'pu'.

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB