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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/homedir.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Changelog +Daniel S (1 Nov 2007) +- Toby Peterson patched a memory problem in the command line tool that + happened when a user had a home dir as an empty string. curl would then do + free() on a wrong area. + Dan F (1 Nov 2007) - Fixed curl-config --features to not display libz when it wasn't used due to a missing header file. diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 82cc069ed..d2d64d98f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes: o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available + o free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir This release includes the following known bugs: @@ -32,6 +33,6 @@ New curl mirrors: This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and advice from friends like these: - + Dan Fandrich, Gisle Vanem, Toby Peterson Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) diff --git a/src/homedir.c b/src/homedir.c index f27aa6924..d9bc39fe5 100644 --- a/src/homedir.c +++ b/src/homedir.c @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| * - * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. + * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. * * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ char *homedir(void) #endif if (home && home[0]) home = strdup(home); + else + home = NULL; } } #endif /* PWD-stuff */ |