Package: plan
Version: 1.9-6.2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

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the function read_language_file() copy the content of file in memory without 
adding a null character at the end. However the following loop expects a null 
character to stop (cf. patch in attachment)



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Julien
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--- /tmp/plan-1.9/src/language.c	2005-01-09 11:01:36.000000000 +0100
+++ plan-1.9/src/language.c	2007-03-27 14:50:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -138,9 +138,10 @@
 	if (!nstrings)
 		nstrings = nline;
 							/* create list */
-	if (!(list = (char **)malloc(nline * sizeof(char *) + fsize)))
+	if (!(list = (char **)malloc(nline * sizeof(char *) + fsize+1)))
 		fatal("no memory for language file");
 	memcpy(list[0] = p = (char *)&list[nline], file, fsize);
+	p[fsize]='\0';
 							/* eval "\n", eoln=0 */
 	for (q=p; *p; p++, q++)
 		if      (*p   == '\n')	*q = 0;

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