[galib] buffer overflow with long score file filenames

Michael Gratton mike at vee.net
Sun Apr 6 06:14:07 EDT 2008


Hi,

Using long paths (>64 bytes) for the score file name causes a buffer
overflow in galib247.

The attached patch fixes this. It just removes the string copy in
GAGeneticAlgorithm::setptr() before calling
GAStatistics::scoreFilename(), because that method makes a copy anyway.

Cheers,
/Mike

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✌ Michael Gratton. Geeknik since 1976.
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