Comment 23 for bug 1838448

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Florian Weimer (fweimer) wrote :

I agree with Steven.

Seth, the cause of these crashes are out-of-bounds std::vector accesses. C programmers would call these “buffer overflows”. I do not think it is a good idea to remove these checks. Unlike C, C++ standard containers can actually perform such checks and reduce exposure of security vulnerabilities.