[vlc-devel] Fix a potential buffer overflow in the samba access
Ludovic Fauvet
etix at l0cal.com
Tue Nov 2 19:34:07 CET 2010
2010/11/2 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>> Patch #0001 fixes a potential buffer overflow (Win32 only) on a call
>> to snprintf.
>
> snprintf() writes n bytes *including* the terminating nul.
> This patch looks totally useless.
Right.
I didn't read the man carefully, I guessed that the terminal nul byte
wasn't written if the input string was truncated by snprintf.
Sorry for the noise :-)
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Ludovic Fauvet (etix)
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