GNU bug report logs - #49741
basenc --base64url decoding bug

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: emil <at> emlun.se

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 14:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 49741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: Emil Lundberg <lundberg.emil <at> gmail.com>, 49741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#49741: basenc --base64url decoding bug
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:37:41 +0200

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 2:02 AM Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 16/08/2021 22:17, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > Hello Emil and all,
> >
> > Thanks for the clear and easily reproducible bug report.
> >
> > Attached a suggested fix.
> > Comments very welcomed,
>
> minor nit in NEWS:
> s/silently discard/silently discards/
>
> Otherwise it looks good!

Nice, indeed!
a nit in the commit log:

-The input buffer was not divisible by 3
+The input buffer length was not divisible by 3
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