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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#6141) infinite string malloc
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:03:30 -0700
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sometimes with //TRANSLIT iconv gets confused and tries to output a 
(seemingly) infinite-length string.  This results in an arbitrarily 
large malloc which will eventually crash the server in S1_14.

It's too bad iconv has such a bad API.  The only two workarounds I see 
are to not use //TRANSLIT (which is a bad idea; someone using ASCII 
should still be able to see valid text via transliteration) or to cap 
the string length.

jason
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