GNU bug report logs - #17334
24.3; Crash in cmdproxy.exe

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sohail Somani <sohail <at> taggedtype.net>

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sohail Somani <sohail <at> taggedtype.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Crash in cmdproxy.exe
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:58:57 -0400

There is a "bug" in cmdproxy.exe which should never happen, but does
anyway. In make_absolute, there is the following code:

  strncpy(dir, path, p - path);
  dir[p - path] = '\0';

If p-path > sizeof(dir), a buffer overrun occurs.

I came across this problem because I accidentally used ':' as a
separator when constructing the PATH variable in Emacs.

Thanks,

Sohail
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