Discussion on whether a buffer overflow bug involving illegal positions in Stockfish (#1 ranked chess engine) could lead to remote code execution on the user's machine

• Stockfish

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  A free and strong UCI chess engine

  

Look at the movegen, position and types.h in their code for details. https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/tree/master/src it isn’t just one buffer. It is one per position they evaluate and they might be looking at millions of positions to determine the most promising next move for the current position.

• fishtest

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  The Stockfish testing framework

  

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• CppCoreGuidelines

  307 41,562 7.6 Python

  The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++

  

Here's a blurb from isocpp: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/493

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