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    pgrep: Prevent a potential stack-based buffer overflow. · b51ca2a1
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    This is one of the worst issues that we found: if the strlen() of one of
    the cmdline arguments is greater than INT_MAX (it is possible), then the
    "int bytes" could wrap around completely, back to a very large positive
    int, and the next strncat() would be called with a huge number of
    destination bytes (a stack-based buffer overflow).
    
    Fortunately, every distribution that we checked compiles its procps
    utilities with FORTIFY, and the fortified strncat() detects and aborts
    the buffer overflow before it occurs.
    
    This patch also fixes a secondary issue: the old "--bytes;" meant that
    cmdline[sizeof (cmdline) - 2] was never written to if the while loop was
    never entered; in the example below, "ff" is the uninitialized byte:
    
    ((exec -ca `python3 -c 'print("A" * 131000)'` /usr/bin/cat < /dev/zero) | sleep 60) &
    pgrep -a -P "$!" 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
    00000000  31 32 34 36 30 20 41 41  41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41  |12460 AAAAAAAAAA|
    00000010  41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41  41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41  |AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA|
    *
    00001000  41 41 41 41 ff 0a 31 32  34 36 32 20 73 6c 65 65  |AAAA..12462 slee|
    00001010  70 20 36 30 0a                                    |p 60.|
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