Re: string.find security questions

[Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@...>]

Ah it is indeed fixed in 5.2.2, I just checked. Throws an error,
"pattern too complex". I guess my questions were just a waste of time
then. Sorry for bothering and thanks for the hint! :)

Regards,
Jonas Thiem

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Well normally things have a patch appended when they are fixed, so I
> assumed this one was more of a notification than a fix announcement.
> But if it's fixed, that would be awesome of course.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Doug Currie <doug.currie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I took that directly from the most recent bug notification here:
>>> http://www.lua.org/bugs.html ("Some patterns can overflow the C
>>> stack")
>>
>> … which means it was fixed in Lua 5.2.2 if I am reading this correctly:
>>
>>> Every Lua release fixes all listed bugs in previous releases, except where noted.
>>
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