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  Re: possible buffer overflow by bad translation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-09-16 11:04 -0400

#15375 — Re: possible buffer overflow by bad translation

On 9/15/19 2:24 PM, Roland Illig wrote:
> From siglist.c:
> 
> 	  sys_siglist[i] =
> 	    (char *)xmalloc (10 + strlen (_("Unknown Signal #")));
> 
> 	  sprintf (sys_siglist[i], _("Unknown Signal #%d"), i);

I'll figure something out. This code is used in exceedingly rare
circumstances: where a system doesn't provide sys_siglist[] or
strsignal(). You probably haven't used one in years.

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