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bin/49058: Off by one bug in apropos
>Number: 49058
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Off by one bug in apropos
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 01 12:45:00 +0000 2014
>Originator: Abhinav Upadhyay
>Release: NetBSD-6
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I noticed an off by one bug in apropos. The bug is in the html output where
some garbage characters are seen in the context match output.
>How-To-Repeat:
apropos -n 1 -h ls
<tr><td colspan=2><b>ls</b>r</td></tr>
(notice the extra 'r' after </b>)
apropos -n 1 -h cp
<tr><td colspan=2><b>cp</b>o</td></tr>
(notice the 'o' after </b>)
>Fix:
Index: apropos-utils.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos-utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 apropos-utils.c
--- apropos-utils.c 2 Apr 2013 17:16:50 -0000 1.15
+++ apropos-utils.c 27 Jul 2014 16:26:26 -0000
@@ -704,9 +704,9 @@
break;
}
}
- qsnippet[++i] = 0;
+ qsnippet[i] = 0;
(*callback)(orig_data->data, section, name, name_desc,
- (const char *)qsnippet, qsnippet_length);
+ (const char *)qsnippet, strlen(qsnippet));
free(qsnippet);
return 0;
}
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