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> An off by one error may go harmlessly unnoticed at worst, or trigger a harmless segmentation fault at best Or be used in a remote code execution attack. So "
by RHSeeger 5y ago
> An off by one error may go harmlessly unnoticed at worst, or trigger a harmless segmentation fault at best
Or be used in a remote code execution attack. So "harmless unnoticed" is FAR from the "worst" case.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoYeah, I had to reread that because I'm pretty sure "silently wrong" is the worst case, and not harmlessly so; I would 100% prefer segfaults, which let me actually fix the problem or at least know something's wrong.