Linked by David Adams on Fri 11th Jul 2008 01:55 UTC, submitted by ohxten
An ancient (at least 33 years old) stack-overflow bug has been discovered and fixed in yacc, thanks to a new malloc() implementation by Otto Moerbeek. More info and a complete description of the bug can be found here.
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So tools like valgrind and Parasoft's Insure++ weren't able to catch this ?
Edited 2008-07-11 16:07 UTC