Using snprintf which honors the buffers size and guarantees null temination. (Closes: #1601) #1663
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…ination. (Closes: monitoring-plugins#1601) As strcpy may overflow the resulting buffer: flo@p5:~$ /tmp/f/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_pgsql -d "$(seq 1 10000)" *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated Aborted I would propose to change the code rather like this, using snprintf which honors the buffers size and guarantees null termination.
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As strcpy may overflow the resulting buffer:
flo@p5:~$ /tmp/f/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_pgsql -d "$(seq 1 10000)"
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted
I would propose to change the code rather like this, using snprintf
which honors the buffers size and guarantees null termination.