[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#523027: [oss-security] incorrect upstream fix for CVE-2009-0840 (mapserver)

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Nico Golde <oss-security+ml at ngolde.de> [2009-06-22 15:45]:
[...] 
> Unfortunately this doesn't fix the issue and I wonder why people always think
> changing signed types to unsigned will fix such errors.
> If I pass 0xffffffff as the content-length according to type conversion rules
> in C atoi() will convert this to -1 which is again converted to 0xffff when
                                                            0xffffffff^^
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