Thanks for the tip. Now, how do we get this fix into an official codebase?
Yuval -----Original Message----- From: Harald Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon, July 15, 2002 17:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [openssl.org #147] [PATCH] The function print_name in apps/apps.c truncates X509_NAM Es that are longer than 255 characters Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Yuval Pemper had to walk into mine and say: > Another problem with my code: the buffer I allocated wasn't freed... > Thanks to Peter Sylvester for pointing this out. I also moved the > allocation of the buffer to where it's actually used. What's wrong with: buf = X509_NAME_oneline(nm, NULL, 0); ... OPENSSL_free(buf); (given those parameters, X509_NAME_oneline() will allocate a buffer of the correct size and fill it for you. No complicated code required). -- Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael T. Fry ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
