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| author | Petr Uzel | 2011-08-10 15:32:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-08-15 14:28:21 +0200 |
| commit | c53c38b90b9ca117fdf052c49934f6f2191bec63 (patch) | |
| tree | e686659c01840b6ff6b42557132d4cebe31478d7 /text-utils/display.c | |
| parent | dmesg: avoid mess at the end of dmesg output (diff) | |
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hexdump: fix segfault due to uninitialized memory
util-linux commit 85bf44b714ab184907eb448eba389218956d6a51
replaced all calls to emalloc() with xmalloc(), whose semantics
is however different - it does not zero allocated memory. This
made hexdump segfault if MALLOC_PERTURB_ was set.
Reported-by: Kyrill Detinov <lazy.kent@opensuse.org>
Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710877
Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/display.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/display.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/display.c b/text-utils/display.c index c700b0279..ad638e7f7 100644 --- a/text-utils/display.c +++ b/text-utils/display.c @@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ get(void) u_char *tmpp; if (!curp) { - curp = xmalloc(blocksize); - savp = xmalloc(blocksize); + curp = xcalloc(1, blocksize); + savp = xcalloc(1, blocksize); } else { tmpp = curp; curp = savp; |