Fix to hash DoS breaks RNG

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#519 Fix to hash DoS breaks RNG

Milestone: Feature Request

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Sebastian Pipping

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2016-03-28

Created: 2014-01-31

Creator: Stefan Sørensen

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Hi,

The call to srand() added in the hash DoS fix breaks some applications using expat and the rand() function. Imagine an application creating a lot of XML parsers - if two parsers are created in the same second, the rand() function calls after the parser creation will return the same sequence of "random" numbers.

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Sebastian Pipping - 2016-03-28

status: open --> closed-fixed

assigned_to: Sebastian Pipping
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Sebastian Pipping - 2016-03-28

The issue has been addressed on Git master now. Closing.

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