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authorAlex Gendin <ukkeefy@gmail.com>2020-09-26 23:26:07 -0400
committerAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>2021-08-02 20:30:21 +0000
commitc2811c953620cf946269db2b74b29e0dc707e26a (patch)
treeee166539b49b8a36d4cc89a68d871059b1e6211a /parsedpy.c
parentd7e5021416444e3cc545ffa4f8d1e613cabec633 (diff)
downloadxorg-app-xauth-c2811c953620cf946269db2b74b29e0dc707e26a.tar.gz
Fix segfault when X starts
This patch potentially fixes bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884934 System log entries when this bug occurs: kernel: xauth[16729]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f51f517f5a5 sp 00007ffdec846568 error 4 in libc-2.31.so[7f51f5102000+144000] kernel: Code: bc d1 f3 0f 7f 27 f3 0f 7f 6f 10 f3 0f 7f 77 20 f3 0f 7f 7f 30 49 83 c0 0f 49 29 d0 48 8d 7c 17 31 e9 8f 0b 00 00 66 0f ef c0 <f3> 0f 6f 0e f3 0f 6f 56 10 66 0f 74 c1 66 0f d7 d0 49 83 f8 11 0f This bug happens when function get_address_info() in gethost.c is called with a display name without forward slash, for example 'myhost.mydomain:0'
Diffstat (limited to 'parsedpy.c')
-rw-r--r--parsedpy.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/parsedpy.c b/parsedpy.c
index 97988d3..8aea441 100644
--- a/parsedpy.c
+++ b/parsedpy.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ parse_displayname (const char *displayname,
#ifdef HAVE_STRLCPY
strlcpy(path, displayname, sizeof(path));
#else
- strncpy(path, displayname, sizeof(path));
+ strncpy(path, displayname, sizeof(path) - 1);
path[sizeof(path) - 1] = '\0';
#endif
if (0 == stat(path, &sbuf)) {