From: Spitfire <timid.gentoo@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T17:25:19+09:00
Subject: gets in ruby

  I'm a newbie in Ruby. And, after a first couple of tutorials, I came
across the function 'gets'. Being similar to the function in C, I was
wondering if this would expose programs written in Ruby to buffer overflow
vulnerabilities? Or am I overlooking something here that would invalidate
such an argument? I mean, does the 'gets' in ruby perform bounds checking?


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