From 7f62028d668eaddd1aeaed42c8a0e3ce4947b51f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:49:59 +0000 Subject: 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. --- CHANGES | 5 +++++ RELEASE-NOTES | 3 ++- src/homedir.c | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index c866fd8f1..bdca20044 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -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, , et al. + * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, , 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3