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______________ $Date: 2002/08/09 11:37:13 $
______________ $Date: 2002/11/21 22:39:16 $
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RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
o [2002-11-21]
PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
be optimized away in modern compilers. This is definitely not good
and needs to be fixed immediately. The formula to use is presented
in:
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/297918/2002-10-27/2002-11-02/0
The problem report that mentions this is:
https://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=343
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