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fix for buffer overflow in neos FX server

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 15 01:47:37 1997

From: <mhpower@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 01:47:34 EDT

The patch is relative to /mit/source/athena/lib/neos/server/main.c

Matt

*** main.c.old	Sat Sep 21 19:53:21 1996
--- main.c	Mon Sep 15 01:38:48 1997
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*** 111,113 ****
  
!     (void) strcpy(my_canonhostname, hent->h_name);
  
--- 111,114 ----
  
!     (void) strncpy(my_canonhostname, hent->h_name, sizeof(my_canonhostname));
!     my_canonhostname[sizeof(my_canonhostname) - 1] = '\0';
  

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