Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Using the following program, how would you best code line 7 to prevent a buffer overflow?
1 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int valid = 0;
char str1[8];
char str2[8];
next_tag(str1);
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6 fgets(str2, sizeof(str2), stdin);
if (strncmp(str1, str2, 8) == 0)
valid = 1;
printf("valid = %d", valid);
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10 }
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Transcribed Image Text:Using the following program, how would you best code line 7 to prevent a buffer overflow? 1 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int valid = 0; char str1[8]; char str2[8]; next_tag(str1); 2 3 4 5 6 fgets(str2, sizeof(str2), stdin); if (strncmp(str1, str2, 8) == 0) valid = 1; printf("valid = %d", valid); 7 8 9 10 }
if (strcmp(str1, str2) == 0)
X if (strcmp(str1, str2, 8) == 0)
if (strncmp(str1, str2, sizeof(str2)) == 0)
Add: #define SIZEOF 8 at the top of the program
if (strncmp(str1, str2, SIZEOF) == 0)
No changes are needed.
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Transcribed Image Text:if (strcmp(str1, str2) == 0) X if (strcmp(str1, str2, 8) == 0) if (strncmp(str1, str2, sizeof(str2)) == 0) Add: #define SIZEOF 8 at the top of the program if (strncmp(str1, str2, SIZEOF) == 0) No changes are needed.
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