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Re: Segmentation fault found while fuzzing .pack file under 2.7.0.rc3

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Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2016, 12:51 UTC
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W dniu 06.01.2016 o 10:46, Duy Nguyen pisze:
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> If you can find a fuzzed packfile that crashes "index-pack", then _that_
>> would be a big deal.
> 
> I'm sure you know this, but if Jacek moves to break index-pack, then
> he/she should also try to break unpack-objects because sometimes we
> use that command instead of index-pack.
> 

It sounds that you could use a little explanation on how I found this crashing case and what would it take to fuzz index-pack, according to the conversation I had on #git-devel on irc.freenode.net. Should I assume that you know the basic afl-fuzz in my next post?

BTW @Duy, thanks for CC to me, I'm not subscribed to the ML.
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Message 7 of 13 in “Segmentation fault found while fuzzing .pack file under 2.7.0.rc3”
  1. Jacek WielemborekJan 5, 2016
  2. Jeff KingJan 5, 2016
  3. Jonathan NiederJan 6, 2016
  4. Jeff KingJan 6, 2016
  5. Jacek WielemborekJan 6, 2016
  6. Duy NguyenJan 6, 2016
  7. Jacek WielemborekJan 6, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2016
  10. Jeff KingJan 11, 2016
  11. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2016
  13. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2016

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