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The endianness tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about byte order issues in software, particularly in database drivers and system-level code. A recent thread examines CVE-2024-1013, a vulnerability in unixODBC's PostgreSQL driver caused by incompatible pointer-to-integer type usage on 64-bit platforms, leading to an out-of-bounds stack write. This highlights how assumptions about integer sizes can break across architectures with different endianness. The tag is relevant for developers and IT professionals dealing with cross-platform compatibility, memory corruption bugs, and security patches in Windows and Linux environments.
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    CVE-2024-1013: unixODBC Out-of-Bounds Stack Write in PostgreSQL Driver

    unixODBC has a newly minted CVE — CVE-2024-1013 — describing an out-of-bounds stack write triggered by incompatible pointer-to-integer type usage in an example PostgreSQL driver. The root cause is trivial to state but subtle in practice: on 64‑bit platforms the code assumed 4‑byte integer sizes...
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    • cve 2024 1013 endianness memory corruption unixodbc
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