383189 – x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.27 fails to open mbox files [patch]

Bug 383189 - x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.27 fails to open mbox files [patch]

Summary: x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.27 fails to open mbox files [patch]

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Dockapp Team

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Reported:	2011-09-16 07:59 UTC by Mikael Magnusson
Modified:	2012-07-04 20:08 UTC (History)
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patch (wmbiff-invalid-strncpy.patch,816 bytes, text/plain) 2011-09-16 07:59 UTC, Mikael Magnusson	Details
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Description Mikael Magnusson 2011-09-16 07:59:07 UTC

Created attachment 286627 [details]
patch

wmbiff uses strncpy to remove the 'mbox:' prefix of a string, which is obviously invalid, the patch changes it to use memmove instead.

Comment 1 Bernard Cafarelli gentoo-dev

2012-07-04 20:08:50 UTC

Thanks for the report and patch! And sorry for the delay, looks like this bug got lost under my radar

Added in CVS with 0.4.27-r1 ebuild