tags 715857 + patch
stop
The cause of this bug is that eblook assumes that the
HOME environment variable is always set: it dereferences
the return value of getenv("HOME") without checking that
it is non-NULL.
You can easily reproduce the segfault by running
$ env -u HOME eblook
The following patch causes eblook to exit cleanly if
HOME is unset, rather than segfault. (This eliminates the
segfault without changing program behavior; alternatively,
it could use getpwent to locate the HOME directory)
--- eblook.c.orig
+++ eblook.c
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
int pclose_pager (FILE *);
#endif
+static char *get_homedir (void);
char *read_command (char *, size_t, FILE *);
int excute_command (char *);
int parse_command_line (char *, char *[]);
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@
strcpy (buff, USER_INIT_FILE);
}
#else /* !DOS_FILE_PATH */
- strcpy (buff, getenv ("HOME"));
+ strcpy (buff, get_homedir ());
strcat (buff, USER_INIT_FILE + 1);
#endif /* DOS_FILE_PATH */
} else {
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@
strcpy (buff, HIST_FILE);
}
#else /* !DOS_FILE_PATH */
- strcpy (buff, getenv ("HOME"));
+ strcpy (buff, get_homedir ());
strcat (buff, HIST_FILE + 1);
#endif /* DOS_FILE_PATH */
} else {
@@ -647,6 +648,17 @@
return 0;
}
+static char *
+get_homedir (void)
+{
+ char *homedir = getenv ("HOME");
+ if (!homedir) {
+ xfprintf (stderr, "can't find home directory\n");
+ exit (1);
+ }
+ return homedir;
+}
+
char *
read_command (command_line, size, stream)
char *command_line;
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