[Interest] Crash with Qt application that use OpenGL

Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 12:59:10 CEST 2017



> Am 20.04.2017 um 21:04 schrieb Xavier Bigand <flamaros.xavier at gmail.com>:
> 
> It is not necessary a bug from Nvidia, it can comes from bad parameters to functions like glDrawElements. Nividia drivers don't check a lot the parameters and given wrong values can cause buffer overflows,...

Still a bug in nVidia code then. Again, an OpenGL driver is *not* supposed to crash, even with bad input. That's what the OpenGL standard mandates...

And buffer overflows, God beware :) Report this to nVidia asap (you might get a reward for discovering a security hole ;)).

Cheers,
  Oliver


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