Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2277] ntserv cores from continuum

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

Looking at distress.c, I'd guess that the line strcpy(cry, buf3) is
causing a buffer overrun since cry == "".

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 04:24:30PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> Got lots of these ... any ideas?
> 
> #0  0x3be54 in makedistress (dist=0xefffd290, cry=0xefffd240 "", 
>     pm=0x468f9 " %?%S=SB%{Your Starbase is c%!C%}arrying
> %?%a>0%{%a%!NO%} arm%?%a=1%{y%!ies%}.") at distress.c:287
> #1  0x323f0 in updtMessage (msg=0xefffd388, cur=0xef6c642c) at
> genspkt.c:939
> #2  0x34428 in updateMessages () at genspkt.c:1500
> #3  0x28fd0 in updateClient () at socket.c:586
> #4  0x256b0 in intrupt () at redraw.c:105
> #5  0x1cec0 in setflag () at input.c:69
> #6  <signal handler called>
> #7  0xef637910 in _poll ()
> #8  0x1d4cc in input () at input.c:174
> #9  0x21494 in main (argc=1, argv=0xeffffa78) at main.c:350
> 
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