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A stack-buffer-overflow exercise with AddressSanitizer and PostgreSQL

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 7/10

Summary

A detailed account of using AddressSanitizer to uncover a stack-buffer-overflow in a PostgreSQL refactor. It explains how a miscounted function argument caused a core dump and shows how DirectFunctionCall3Coll fixes it, followed by practical steps to run AddressSanitizer locally.

🚀 Service construit par Johan Denoyer