[tex-live] Fix uninitialized read in m-tx grep func
Dr. Werner Fink
werner at suse.de
Tue Aug 16 10:41:11 CEST 2022
On 2022/07/25 15:15:52 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> Note that the upstream m-tx repository seems to be written in pascal
> but the problematic version in texlive is (auto translated?) C. That's
> why I sent the patch here.
>
> Good sleuthing :), but in fact the C code also comes from the upstream
> maintainer, Bob Tennent. So I sent your patch to him. (Looks perfectly
> sensible to me, FWIW.) --thanks much, karl.
From context I would guess more
V.matching = true;
as otherwise the while loop will never execute ... or the while loop has
to be change into do { } while (V.matching) ...
Werner
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