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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sohail Somani <sohail@taggedtype.net>
Cc: 17334-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17334: 24.3; Crash in cmdproxy.exe
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:08:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831twkpnyw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53588C01.9070406@taggedtype.net>

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:58:57 -0400
> From: Sohail Somani <sohail@taggedtype.net>
> 
> There is a "bug" in cmdproxy.exe which should never happen, but does
> anyway. In make_absolute, there is the following code:
> 
>    strncpy(dir, path, p - path);
>    dir[p - path] = '\0';
> 
> If p-path > sizeof(dir), a buffer overrun occurs.
> 
> I came across this problem because I accidentally used ':' as a
> separator when constructing the PATH variable in Emacs.

Thanks, this is now fixed for Emacs 24.4 (revision 117021 on the
emacs-24 branch).





      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-26  7:08 UTC|newest]

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2014-04-24  3:58 bug#17334: 24.3; Crash in cmdproxy.exe Sohail Somani
2014-04-26  7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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