Re: (ITS#5324) Access violation on Windows due to %n in format strings

ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:

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In libraries/libldap/url.c, function ldap_url_desc2str, there are a

couple of

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sprintfs that use %n in their format strings to return position information. The latest Windows SDKs have heavily deprecated %n and its use now results in an unfortunate access violation and process crash.

ldap_url_desc2str calls desc2str, which is where the sprintfs are.

There's actually only one in an if/else in that function.

This is the same for the latest 2.3 libldap and 2.4 libldap

but this doesn't really answer your question.

Already fixed in HEAD.