> --- a/src/syslogd.c
> +++ b/src/syslogd.c
> @@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ load_conffile (const char *filename, struct filed **nextp)
>        if (*p == '\0' || *p == '#')
>  	continue;
>  
> -      strcpy (cline, p);
> +      strncpy (cline, p, strlen (cline));

I guess this worked by chance: it does not copy the trailing zero, and
it doesn’t address the overlapping-memory-regions issue.

> A side note: compilation of inetutils failed for me complaining about
> missing "help2man".  It finished successfully after I had added
> "help2man" to native-inputs.

That’s because the patch modifies the source of an executable for which
a man page is generated.

Thanks for your feedback!  I’ll report the issue upstream.

Ludo’.