[PATCH 1/3] Remove unnecessary duplicate check.

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Jan 23 17:55:00 CET 2015


On Fri 2015-01-23 09:41:12 -0500, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:35, gnoack at google.com said:
>> checks, patch 3 addresses a copy&paste glitch which mixes up int and
>> unsigned int.
>
> This is a real bug which inhibited the validity checking of all uint32
> arguments (e.g. cache time).  I also backported it to 2.0.

Can you give an example of where this might be a problem?  is there any
possible security implication?

         --dkg



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