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Re: Fixed length character buffers?

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2005-12-03 01:33:07 CET

On 02 Dec 2005 17:05:38 -0600, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:

> ...oh, wait: under some circumstances, that length has to include both
> the keyword and its value. For example, see the strncmp() that
> appears early in libsvn_subr/subst.c:translate_keyword_subst().
>
> Do we have a problem right now? Have we just been lucky that no one's
> had, say, a really long URL as the value of the $URL$ keyword?

No, we haven't been lucky, someone submitted a bug report about that a
while back, there was a buffer overflow in that case.

-garrett

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