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commit 0863271a08debafcdb020eb4ee9f95435dd56916
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 9 04:45:48 2026 -0500
ChangeLog: Improve old item's root-cause analysis.
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ChangeLog | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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it carefully with strncat(3), respecting `bufsz`.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68552>. Thanks to Bruno
- Haible for the investigation and advice. I believe I introduced
- this problem during the groff 1.24.0 development cycle in the
- course of my "node tree dumping death march", but have not
- tracked it down to a specific commit. See generally
- <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2025-03/\
- index.html>.
+ Haible for the investigation and advice. Problem apparently
+ introduced by me in commit dd7bf97938, 23 November, but in the
+ instance for which we have a reproducer, this heap overwrite
+ not reached because it was masked by a prior null pointer
+ dereference (in `lookup_request()`, which was set up to fail by
+ `do_request()`; see Savannah #68558).
2026-07-24 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
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