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peter ferrie
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Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory
10/29/10 07:41 PM


Yes, I meant 0.139, and the "out of memory" problem was that I had stored the CHDs in ZIP files (because some of them compress really well), and I had forgotten to extract them first.
However, the crash indicates that MAME is vulnerable to memory corruption that could result in the execution of arbitrary code. In the gamecstl case, there's a memory allocation overflow condition when the .zip file size exceeds 4Gb, but you don't need such a large file to demonstrate problems in the zip handling.







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* MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory peter ferrie 10/06/10 07:30 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Vas Crabb  10/06/10 11:59 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Pernod  10/06/10 08:15 AM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory peter ferrie  10/29/10 07:41 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/29/10 09:02 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/06/10 09:05 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory DMala  10/06/10 06:42 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/06/10 08:37 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory DMala  10/06/10 09:41 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 06:58 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/07/10 09:03 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 10:24 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory R. Belmont  10/07/10 10:39 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 11:33 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory CrapBoardSoftware  10/06/10 08:49 PM
. * Re: MAME 0.193 -verifyroms crash/out of memory Naoki  10/07/10 06:59 PM

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