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Summary: inconsistent newline removal in $(file <)
Project: make
Submitted by: kennyt
Submitted on: Thu 04 Jun 2020 10:06:36 AM EDT
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Bug
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 4.3
Operating System: Any
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
Within $(file <), the output variable's string buffer can get reallocated,
potentially being moved to a smaller address than the one it started with.
At the end of this function, the code looks for a final newline to strip, but
only if at least one character has been read.
In order to determine whether a character was read, the code tests whether the
pointer into the buffer has increased, and this is not the case if the buffer
was reallocated to a smaller address.
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Date: Thu 04 Jun 2020 10:06:36 AM EDT Name:
0001-src-function.c-func_file-fix-inconsistent-newline-re.patch Size: 2KiB
By: kennyt
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=49212>
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