[fpc-devel] Dynamic codepages etc.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Dec 11 10:35:37 CET 2014


If my understanding is correct, under certain circumstances FPC now 
considers the dynamic codepage of a string and propagates information 
across operations.

I wonder whether this would be a good time to introduce some form of 
taint marking, i.e. a flag indicating that a string is of external 
origin which propagates until a (trusted) function asserts that it's 
been fully checked?

(I've been planning to ask this for a few days, but have just noticed 
http://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-traps-and-clears-your-record/ 
which might have been intended as an "April Fool" joke but still makes a 
good point.)

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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