[crossfire] first bug discovered by unit test

[Tchize]

In fact buffer overflow will probably be reduced by unit testing because
of unexpeted behaviour of some functions when called with long parameters.

Alex Schultz a écrit :

>That would be more functional testing than unit testing, however both 
>are planned in the framework. security functional testing may be a good 
>idea to include some of. Perhaps some thing like attempted buffer 
>overflows over the protocol, or verifying that the password code isn't 
>making any silly mistakes at any time in the future.
>That said, I'm not sure exactly what could be done for these sorts of 
>tests, as not every circumstance could be tested, so the difficulty is 
>planning what things are most important to test in order to catch 
>potential future or current flaws in security.
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>Miguel Ghobangieno wrote:
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>>Yay. There should be added some security unit tests
>>aswell.
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