Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
dpkg does not handle whitespace in versioned relationships correctly if
it happends to be after the version and before the closing parenthesis
as in
Conflicts: uucp (<< 1.06.1+1.07beta1-patch2-1 )
^
diff -Nr -U 10 dpkg-1.10.4/lib/fields.c dpkg-1.10.4.1/lib/fields.c
--- dpkg-1.10.4/lib/fields.c 2002-05-06 18:18:15.000000000 +0200
+++ dpkg-1.10.4.1/lib/fields.c 2002-07-31 02:56:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -368,31 +368,31 @@
fip->name,depname);
}
/* skip spaces between the relation and the version */
while (isspace(*p)) p++;
versionstart= p;
while (*p && *p != ')' && *p != '(') {
if (isspace(*p)) break;
p++;
}
+ versionlength= p - versionstart;
while (isspace(*p)) p++;
if (*p == '(') parseerr(NULL,filename,lno, warnto,warncount,pigp,0,
_("`%s' field, reference to `%.255s': "
"version contains `('"),fip->name,depname);
else if (*p != ')') parseerr(NULL,filename,lno, warnto,warncount,pigp,0,
_("`%s' field, reference to `%.255s': "
"version contains ` '"),fip->name,depname);
else if (*p == 0) parseerr(NULL,filename,lno, warnto,warncount,pigp,0,
_("`%s' field, reference to `%.255s': "
"version unterminated"),fip->name,depname);
- versionlength= p - versionstart;
if (versionlength >= versionused) {
versionused= versionlength;
version= realloc(version,versionlength+1);
}
strncpy(version, versionstart, versionlength);
*(version + versionlength)= 0;
emsg= parseversion(&dop->version,version);
if (emsg) parseerr(NULL,filename,lno, warnto,warncount,pigp,0,
_("`%s' field, reference to `%.255s': "
"error in version: %.255s"),fip->name,depname,emsg);
yours,
peter
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