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From: casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Dbm library
Keywords: ndbm library
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Date: 29 Jan 88 00:00:26 GMT
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  Oopps, that fix should be:

*** /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/ndbm.c	Sun Mar  9 19:51:28 1986
--- /tmp/xxx	Thu Jan 28 15:52:11 1988
***************
*** 496,502 ****
  	if (i2 > 0)
  		i1 = sp[i2];
  	i1 -= item.dsize + item1.dsize;
! 	if (i1 <= (i2+3) * sizeof(short))
  		return (0);
  	sp[0] += 2;
  	sp[++i2] = i1 + item1.dsize;
--- 496,502 ----
  	if (i2 > 0)
  		i1 = sp[i2];
  	i1 -= item.dsize + item1.dsize;
! 	if (i1 <= (i2+3) * (int)(sizeof(short)))
  		return (0);
  	sp[0] += 2;
  	sp[++i2] = i1 + item1.dsize;

Note the additional parenthesis around "sizeof(short)".

Casey