Fix UB by use of dangling references in getaddrinfo_with_timeout #2232
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The following code makes use of several dangling references, when the call to
getaddrinfo
times out:cpp-httplib/httplib.h
Lines 3800 to 3830 in 89c932f
Consider the following scenario:
getaddrinfo
takes 5 seconds to fail for an address that does not resolve.wait_for
call returns withfinished
containingfalse
, the last value ofcompleted
.resolve_thread
is detached.getaddrinfo
returns control back to the caller (the resolve thread).result_mutex
, which is destroyed (other variables are read from/written to as well).The following test will fail on the current master branch:
Since it's UB, you can trigger it more easily like this e.g.: