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Re:C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing com... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:15PM (#32350726)
But that's the entire point of the guard page, it causes a page fault. That's not corruption.

Denial of service by trying to allocate something too big for the stack is obvious. I'm asking about how corruption is supposed to happen on a reasonable platform.

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Re:C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing com... by naasking on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:29AM (#32352860)
Perhaps they're trying to guard against introducing easy vulnerabilities on unreasonable platforms. With VLAs unskilled developers can perhaps more easily introduce this problem. It would be a case of bad platforms and bad developers ruining it for the rest.
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