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Re: Please accept sarg-2.0.7-1 in sarge



Luigi,

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:15:09PM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>:
> >>. Fixes segfault, produced by inproper use of strncpy functions, 
> >>look - strncpy
> >>  doesn't copy leading '\0' symbol!

> >Can you explain the impact of this segfault?

> While generating the index file parsing directories if the month string is
> longer than 3 char a strncpy call in index.c generates a not null-terminated
> string that is subsequently passed to a strcat, resulting in a segfault.

And when is the month string longer than 3 chars?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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