Re: partial analysis of vulndev-1.c

> Most likely the memory allocator never allocated blocks that small. So
when
> you asked for a 10-byte block, you got one that was 14 or 16 bytes or

That's what I thought - it seems that the way malloc() is handled behind the scenes is very system dependant; as well as a possible minimum block size, it could also be padded or aligned in some way and end up rather different to what you would expect from the code.

Cheers. Received on Wed May 14 12:18:13 2003