[5518] in Athena Bugs
ss ss_add_info_dir() deref's null pointer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jul 12 03:13:56 1990
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 03:13:32 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I think the following patch speaks for itself. Note that there are
probably a number of versions of the ss library in our source tree,
and this should affect all of them.
*** /source/athena/athena.lib/ss/help.c Wed Jan 25 07:25:50 1989
--- help.c Thu Jul 12 03:12:52 1990
***************
*** 94,100 ****
register char **dirs;
info = ss_info(sci_idx);
! if (info_dir == NULL && *info_dir) {
*code_ptr = SS_ET_NO_INFO_DIR;
return;
}
--- 94,100 ----
register char **dirs;
info = ss_info(sci_idx);
! if (info_dir == NULL || *info_dir == '\0') {
*code_ptr = SS_ET_NO_INFO_DIR;
return;
}
