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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-03-02 18:54:43 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-03-03 09:01:17 +0100
commit7cfd12c78e0be4c90f29c99ab383163aa1471504 (patch)
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parenta132e03507871f9506940d3cdf82faa072d861bf (diff)
downloadcoreutils-7cfd12c78e0be4c90f29c99ab383163aa1471504.tar.xz
wc: avoid NULL dereference on out-of-memory error
* src/wc.c (main): Diagnose failed argv_iter_init_* failure, rather than falling through and dereferencing NULL. Bug introduced by 2008-11-25 commit c2e56e0d, "wc: read and process --files0-from= input a name at a time,". * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
delimiter and an unbounded range like "-f1234567890-".
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
+ wc would dereference a NULL pointer upon an early out-of-memory error
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.10 (2011-02-04) [stable]