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Re: Regarding CVE-2016-9594 (uninitialized random)

From: Rich Gray <rgray_at_plustechnologies.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:28:04 -0500

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Friday, February 17, 2017 17:14:37 Andreas Mohr wrote:
>> 0. The code used an old-style BREAK-CAST *) in order to work around
>> (not: treat!) a transition issue caused by mismatch of API signatures
>> (ROOT CAUSE)
>
> I do not understand what you mean by BREAK-CAST. Assuming I am not the
> only one who does not understand it, putting it to the advisory would
> hardly help.

Yay! I'm not the only one! :)

Rich

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