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To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>,
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At 5:02 PM +0000 10/21/04, Colin Percival wrote:
>cperciva    2004-10-21 17:02:38 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5)
>     usr.bin/xargs        strnsubst.c
>   Log:
>   Fix a buffer overflow.  This is the same bug as is corrected in rev.
>   1.7, but the correction is different: Rather than making sure the
>   string we're constructing doesn't grow too large, we realloc() to
>   make sure the buffer is large enough.
>
>   This violates the IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 standard, but retains
>   backwards compatability.

Thanks.  I think this is a much better solution!

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