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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:22:47 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/lib/libc/net ascii2addr.c
Message-ID:  <199612130922.KAA17521@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612130521.QAA20872@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 13, 96 04:21:17 pm"

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> This introduces an embarassing and rather obscure incarnation of an
> uninitialized local variable use: now strbuf[15] is uninitialized.
> strncpy(), unlike strncat(), does not null terminate the target string
> if the source string together with its null terminator is longer than
> the specified length.

Garrett did already point out this... fix will follow ASAP (unless
somebody beats me at this :).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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