Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014)
52 points
4 days ago
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| tinyhack.com
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ori_b
4 hours ago
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OpenBSD has removed the format specifier that makes this possible, for hopefully obvious reasons.
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josefx
1 hour ago
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Was the thought process: "Anything involving C string handling is fundamentally security hostile, lets fix it by breaking %n!"
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trashb
10 minutes ago
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Can you elaborate on the statement "Anything involving C string handling is fundamentally security hostile"?
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gnabgib
4 days ago
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Discussion at the time (181 points, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389623
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