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Bug 594444 - app-text/recode-3.6_p20-r1: possible buffer overflow when the input filename is too long
Summary: app-text/recode-3.6_p20-r1: possible buffer overflow when the input filename ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Shell Tools project
URL: https://github.com/pinard/Recode/pull/3
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Keywords: PATCH
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Reported: 2016-09-20 00:41 UTC by Coacher
Modified: 2019-04-15 22:28 UTC (History)
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Description Coacher 2016-09-20 00:41:31 UTC 
Hello.

Source code says:

char output_name[200]; /* FIXME: dangerous limit */
[...]
input_name = argv[optind];
[...]
strcpy (output_name, input_name);

This can't be good. Gentoo patchset doesn't cover this.

Please fix.