Re: [Bug-zile] SIGSEGV in term_init

[Reuben Thomas]

On 23 November 2011 04:54, Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In zile-2.4.2, in term_curses.c in term_init(), the call to
> tigetstr(capname)
> can return NULL if CAPNAME is not a capability of the terminal.
> Such as when zile is called from within emacs's eshell.
>
> In this case, the following line
>
> assert (strlen (kbs) == 1);
>
> can SIGSEGV by calling strlen on NULL.
>
> SHould probably be
>
> assert (kbs && strlen (kbs) == 1);

Thanks very much; fix committed to git. In case tigetstr doesn't
return a value for kbs, it defaults to 0177.

I don't think this merits a new release, so I won't be making one just yet.

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