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Date:      Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:43:21 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/kldxref kldxref.c
Message-ID:  <8664h6ci86.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200608042128.k74LShD7052071@repoman.freebsd.org> (Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:28:43 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <200608042128.k74LShD7052071@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Fix (static) buffer overflow bug. The dest buffer is of size MAXPATHLEN,
>   so dest[MAXPATHLEN] falls outside the buffer.  This bug corrupted
>   arenas[0] defined in libc's malloc.c on PowerPC when kldxref is shared,
>   which triggered a delayed SIGSERV.

MAXPATHLEN should be spelled PATH_MAX.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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