[NTG-pdftex] bug in utils.c of pdftex-1.40-beta-20060213

1 May 2006

there is a silly but mostly harmless buffer overrun while reading array
p, sorry. Below is a patch.

Regards, Hartmut

--- utils.c.orig	2006-01-21 02:56:17.000000000 +0100
+++ utils.c	2006-05-01 20:48:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1237,7 +1262,7 @@
 {
     enum { NONUM, DOTNONUM, INT, DOT, LEADDOT, FRAC } s = NONUM, t = NONUM;
     char *p, *q, *r;
-    for (p = q = r = a; *q != '\0';) {
+    for (p = q = r = a; *p != '\0';) {
         switch (s) {
         case NONUM:
             if (*p >= '0' && *p <= '9')
@@ -1296,5 +1321,6 @@
         *q++ = *p++;
         t = s;
     }
+    *q = '\0';
     return a;
 }

    

Hartmut Henkel