[patch] buffer overrun fix in backtracesyms.c

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 13:58:00 GMT 2000


Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org> writes:

> Glancing at the backtrace_symbols() function, I noticed that a
> buffer overrun can occur on a 64-bit machine. The string [+%p] has a
> maximum character length of 22 on a 16-bit machine, not 19 as the
> code seems to believe (with WORD_WIDTH == 16). This patch will fix
> the problem:

Thanks, I've applied the patch.

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