Bug 28554 – [xfree-4/*_imake-tmpdir.patch]: imake doesn't handle long `$TMPDIR' properly

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description bartron 2003-09-12 14:54:50 UTC]

The `imake-tmpdir.patch' patch that is included in the
following patch tarballs creates a fixed-sized buffer, but
does not check the size of data it copies there.  If
`$TMPDIR' is longer than 242 bytes, imake will write past
the end of `aout[255]'.

XFree86-4.2.1-patches-1.2.tar.bz2
XFree86-4.2.99.4-patches-1.1.tar.bz2
  102_all_4.2.0-imake-tmpdir.patch.bz2

XFree86-4.3.0-patches-1.1.3.tar.bz2
XFree86-4.3.0-patches-1.1.7.tar.bz2
  092_all_4.2.0-imake-tmpdir.patch

XFree86-4.3.0-patches-2.1.6.tar.bz2
XFree86-4.3.0-patches-2.1.10.tar.bz2
  0128_all_4.2.0-imake-tmpdir.patch

XFree86-4.3.0-patches-2.1.11.tar.bz2
  0128_all_4.2.0-imake-tmpdir.patch

  There is no such patch in
`XFree86-4.3.99.11-patches-0.8.tar.bz2'
(but see bug #28482)

[Comment 1 bartron 2003-09-12 14:56:20 UTC]

Created attachment 17595 [details]
imake-test.sh

test case

[Comment 2 bartron 2003-09-12 14:58:03 UTC]

Created attachment 17596 [details, diff]
imake-tmpdir.patch

improved `imake-tmpdir.patch', with some extra checks added

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-09-22 00:09:13 UTC]

Thanks much...added to 4.3.99.12 and 4.3.0-r{2,3}.