fix: use snprintf in Caesar.c - #2
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Summary
Fix critical severity security issue in
c/Caesar.c.Vulnerability
V-001c/Caesar.c:31Description: The caesar() function uses sprintf() to concatenate characters into the 'result' buffer without bounds checking. The result buffer is allocated as 1024 bytes in main() at line 49. If input exceeds 1024 characters, the sprintf calls will write beyond the buffer boundary, corrupting adjacent stack memory.
Evidence
Exploitation scenario: An attacker who can control the input string to the Caesar cipher provides a string exceeding 1024 characters.
Scanner confirmation: multi_agent_ai rule
V-001flagged this pattern.Production code: This file is in the production codebase, not test-only code.
Changes
c/Caesar.cBehavior Preservation
The change is scoped to 1 file on the vulnerable path; it only tightens handling of untrusted input and leaves valid inputs unaffected.
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