Coverity Scan identifies several issues

[nemequ]

I'm running Squash through Coverity Scan, and it identifies several potential issues in ms-compress (at least some of which seem legitimate).

The results aren't public, and it's kind of difficult to just list what it finds since the logic of how it reaches that conclusion is often important, but I can try to summarize if you want. The other options would be to sign of for an account and run the scan yourself, or I could invite you to view the report from Squash.

[coderforlife]

Interesting, but it will take some time before I can get around to doing
anything related to this - at least a few weeks.

I do know that there are several "dangerous" parts in the code, that I have
been able to mostly reason out as being impossible, but not trivially so. I
predict some of these are showing up. However, my logic could always be
flawed...

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Evan Nemerson [email protected]
wrote:

I'm running Squash through Coverity Scan https://scan.coverity.com/,
and it identifies several potential issues in ms-compress (at least some of
which seem legitimate).

The results aren't public, and it's kind of difficult to just list what it
finds since the logic of how it reaches that conclusion is often important,
but I can try to summarize if you want. The other options would be to sign
of for an account and run the scan yourself, or I could invite you to view
the report from Squash.

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[nemequ]

FWIW I'm planning on starting to fuzz all the Squash plugins soon, so if there are issues you'll probably have test cases, too.

[nemequ]

I just took another look through the results for ms-compress. They are all about either unitialized values or trusting tainted data.