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Re:Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort() by vitiral on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:00PM (#39268917)
> So glibc's qsort doesn't sort arrays of items when fed nonsense input? No kidding.

Not only will it not sort them... it will lead to OOB memory accesses by qsort itself

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Re:Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort() by nuc1e0n on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:36AM (#39273193)
Yeah, I agree that's a bug and it's good to have a fix for it.
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