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fix for buffer overflow in klogind

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 19 01:30:24 1997

From: <mhpower@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:30:20 EDT

The patch is relative to /mit/source/third/krb5/src/appl/bsd/krlogind.c

Matt

*** krlogind.c.old	Tue Apr  1 00:08:40 1997
--- krlogind.c	Fri Sep 19 01:15:08 1997
***************
*** 550,552 ****
      /* Save hostent information.... */
!     else strcpy(rhost_name,hp->h_name);
      
--- 550,555 ----
      /* Save hostent information.... */
!     else {
! 	strncpy(rhost_name,hp->h_name,sizeof(rhost_name));
! 	rhost_name[sizeof(rhost_name) - 1] = '\0';
!     }
      

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