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Re: [PATCH] quotearg: do not read beyond end of buffer


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quotearg: do not read beyond end of buffer
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 03:55:57 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 05/12/2013 10:14 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> I ran gcc's -fsanitize=address against coreutils, and two
>>> sort tests failed due to buffer overruns.  Both arose via
>>> a bug in quotearg.c.  Patch below.  Two things remain to do:
>>>   1) find when the bug was introduced (before push)
>>>   2) address the module-factoring FIXME comment (after)
>>>
>>> Not sure I'll do #1, but I will get to #2.
>>
>> Thanks for catching this bug!
>>
>> For #1, it looks like it was commit c4b7f3f8557b27a729a0065bba401dc629357345:
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=c4b7f3f8557b27a729a0065bba401dc629357345

I've adjusted the commit log to include that, and pushed.



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