RE: partial analysis of vulndev-1.c

From: David Schwartz (davidsat_private)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 17:41:08 PDT

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    > actually, during debugging i used a modified version with #define SIZE 10.
> this one did not produce a SIGSEGV.
> when realising that others were able to produce one (Nexus for example),
> i checked the unmodified. it produces a SIGSEGV.
>
> does someone know, why the modified does not produce one?

	Most likely the memory allocator never allocated blocks that small. So when
you asked for a 10-byte block, you got one that was 14 or 16 bytes or
possibly even more.

	DS

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