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By always allocating memory for strings, does this open Bstrlib up to denial of service attacks when receiving user input?

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By always allocating memory for strings, does this open Bstrlib up to denial of service attacks when receiving user input?

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A. Bstrlib contains a function bSecureInput () in the bstraux module which addresses this issue; it takes an optional maximum length parameter for user input. So malformed input cannot lead to unsually large amounts of resources to be wasted unnecessarily.

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