Serious Mac OS X file-save bug could delete files
updated 11:35 am EST, Mon November 17, 2003
Mac OS X file-save bug
MacNN readers note a serious that affects all Cocoa application, which could caused deletion of an entire (non-boot) partition: "If you try to save a file with a name that is *much* too long (say, 1000 characters), OSX will apparently suffer some kind of buffer overflow, and overwrite the folder you're trying to save that file into. It will warn you that it might overwrite something, but if you're not paying attention or if you instinctively hi enter... You could potentially completely overwrite a partition (obviously not the system drive for permission reasons, but any partition), if you're saving at the root of that partition."






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Joined: Jul 2001
Yeah but...
who ever names a document with more than 1000 charecters?