[vdr] Re: Coredump - vdr 1.3.9 at eit.c:205

[Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:


> Well, IIRC the Title and ShortText can by definition only be up to 256
> bytes long (including the terminating 0). But of course we could use a
>
>   char buffer[4096];
>
> for both cases.
Well, I'm just waiting till someone sends epg data to root a lot of vdr 
boxes using some neat buffer overflows.
Providing how many vdrs are running as root (I'm sure there are a lot) 
I'd really suggest to get rid of all auto variable buffers and use 
buffers in the heap instead.

.. or i'm just too paranoid :)

> Thanks for your debugging work. I'll try to find out more about the actual
> cause of the problem tomorrow (provided the ZDF transponder still sends
> garbled data then). Right now my VDR is recording...
Never mind, but I missed todays episode of Hausmeister Krause ;(
(did I really miss something?)

kind regards Philip