------- Comment #2 from nigelenki at comcast dot net 2006-07-11 03:27 ------- And the developer is going to debug a program nice and slow when those obscure, hard to trigger bugs come along.
I was just toying with metasploit the other day. Threw an exploit at Windows to get me a remote VNC session (vncdllbind payload). The exploit I used was active since WinNT4sp3 all the way up to WinXPSP1. Do you know how many years that is for an active buffer overflow to be around? How many times was that obscurely triggered like ONE TIME by someone who didn't know nor care why his OS just rebooted? Twice? Three times? Stuff like this can be patched on the distro end; this bug is mostly a proof of concept that I doubt is going to gain any traction. I'm more interested in #28328 tbh. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28334
