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commit    0b49642b99ca2818bb8bfcaddf522b2e36a5b350
Author:   Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date:     Thu Jan 15 14:26:03 2015 +0000

    pg_standby: Avoid writing one byte beyond the end of the buffer.
    
    Previously, read() might have returned a length equal to the buffer
    length, and then the subsequent store to buf[len] would write a
    zero-byte one byte past the end.  This doesn't seem likely to be
    a security issue, but there's some chance it could result in
    pg_standby misbehaving.
    
    Spotted by Coverity; patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.


 contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c b/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
index d6b169264c3..2f9f2b4d2e9 100644
--- a/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
+++ b/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ CheckForExternalTrigger(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) < 0)
+	if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1)) < 0)
 	{
 		fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: could not read \"%s\": %s\n",
 				triggerPath, strerror(errno));


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