[hardening-discuss] Bug#462682: hardened-c++: dies due to "Nested quantifiers in regex"

Kees Cook kees at outflux.net
Sun Jan 27 20:23:44 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:42:06PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> hardened-c++'s attempt to check for being run directly (rather than
> as, say, g++) backfires due to insufficient quoting:
> 
> $ g++ -dumpversion
> Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/hardened-c++ <-- HERE $/ at /usr/bin/g++ line 74.

Eek, thanks, good catch.  Next upload will fix this.

-Kees

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