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20051227: gempak radmap_sw bug report

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  • Subject: 20051227: gempak radmap_sw bug report
  • Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:43:35 -0700
Jose,

Thanks. We'll fix that.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: "Jose F. Nieves" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200512271928.jBRJSs7s024534

>gempak-5.9.1 compiled on freebsd-6.0 on amd64 in 64 bit mode.
>
>radmap_sw tool gives a segmentation fault error.
>
>Traced to
>       line: 120
>       file: source/driver/active/gif/wsatim.c 
>       
>        /*
>         * Insert null at end of file name.
>         */
>        filnam[*lenfil] = '\0';
>
>Problem: seems to be that lenfil is declared as 
>
>        long int *lenfil
>
>        in the argument list, but it is passed an int* from the function
>        hsatim() in hsatim.f, so lenfil in wsatim() is probably reading
>        some 32 extra bytes of junk, and filnam[*lenfil] is out of bounds.
>
>Jose F Nieves
>
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