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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:11:01 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net name6.c
Message-ID:  <20000703111101.A75726@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007030233.TAA89073@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:33:03PM -0700
References:  <200007030233.TAA89073@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:33:03PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> kris        2000/07/02 19:33:03 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libc/net         name6.c 
>   Log:
>   Fix a nasty bug which would leave the struct hostent incompletely filled out
>   when parsing certain DNS records during a reverse address resolution. Thus
>   when code tries to examine the returned host name, it dereferences a null
>   pointer :-(
>   
>   Problem noticed by:	ps
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.12      +2 -2      src/lib/libc/net/name6.c
> 
Problem first noticed by: PR 19096.
Revision 1.13 seems to fix the problem.

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