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                 Summary: install-info crashes due to memory allocation
blooper
                 Project: texinfo - GNU documentation system
            Submitted by: hashproduct
            Submitted on: Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:36:36 AM GMT
                Category: info
                 Release: 
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: bug
                 Privacy: Public
             Open/Closed: Open
             Assigned to: None
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Status: None

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Details:

munge_old_style_debian_options in install-info is allocating the wrong size
buffer to hold the generated --section option, which can result in a crash
under certain circumstances.  See the attached patch.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:36:37 AM GMT  Name: texinfo-4.13a-mosdo-crash.patch 
Size: 522B   By: hashproduct

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=18672>

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