On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 09:06:26PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Solar Designer <[email protected]>, 2025-04-24 20:32: > >There appears to be a growing trend towards calling OOB reads "buffer > >overflows". > > Part of the problem may be that AddressSanitizer uses this unforuntate > terminology; you get something like this: > > ==7802==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow on address > 0xf5f00021 at pc 0xf79c113e bp 0xfff496e8 sp 0xfff492c4 > READ of size 2 at 0xf5f00021 thread T0
Yes, this may very well be the main cause of this trend. Is someone reading this in a position to change the wording in AddressSanitizer? For example, it could have "stack out-of-bounds read" in place of "stack-buffer-overflow" above. Alexander
