[erlang-bugs] Bug in ei_resolve.c/copy_hostent

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for pointing this out.
I have added this item to my ToDo-list and I have made a ticket of it.

It is my intention to have this corrected in R12B-5.

Regards,
Björn-Egil
Erlang/OTP

Paul Guyot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is a very bad bug in ei_resolve.c's copy_hostent. The function 
> modifies the source hostent structure provided by gethost* functions, 
> and in particular h_aliases and h_addr_list, while it shouldn't. On 
> MacOS X 10.4, this yields to a heap corruption. One can arguably blame 
> MacOS X for this bug (which might be fixed on 10.5), but yet I believe 
> the fields should be copied for safety. The attached patch fixes the 
> problem and declares the source hostent const to enforce the check by 
> the compiler.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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