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On the 25th of March I reported to Lasse Collin, the lead maintainer of XZ Utils, a bug I had stumbled upon while I was experimenting with file compressors. I had created a huge pile of files compressed using different tools and I had corrupted them using various methods.
One of the files happened to cause a segmentation fault in xz. It turned out that a mismatch of a single byte in a large .xz block could trigger a "Use After Free" error. UAF happens when a program uses memory it has previously freed.
If you want to know more about the bug, and its fix, read the post by Lasse Collin.
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I finally managed to put my new site up, but "some" content is still missing because I've been too busy to do other things.
But luckily this website is only read by scrapers so no harm done.
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