[6810] in Athena Bugs
Guaranteed null pointer deref in xlib
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 7 02:17:06 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 91 02:16:42 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
from /mit/x11/src/mit/lib/X/Xrm.c:
void XrmMergeDatabases(new, into)
XrmDatabase new, *into;
{
if (*into == NULL) {
*into = new;
} else if (new != NULL) {
Merge(new, *into);
}
}
If the second arg is NULL (although I don't know why anybody would
pass that in), this will dump core. I'd like to know what the author
was thinking (smoking? :-) when he wrote this....
Marc
