Make sure any ENGINE control commands make local copies of string
pointers passed to them whenever necessary. Otherwise it is possible the
caller may have overwritten (or deallocated) the original string data
when a later ENGINE operation tries to use the stored values.
Submitted by: Götz Babin-Ebell <babinebell@trustcenter.de>
Reviewed by: Geoff Thorpe
PR: 98
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 44a1ba5..b45fea6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@
Changes between 0.9.6d and 0.9.7 [XX xxx 2002]
+ *) Make sure any ENGINE control commands make local copies of string
+ pointers passed to them whenever necessary. Otherwise it is possible
+ the caller may have overwritten (or deallocated) the original string
+ data when a later ENGINE operation tries to use the stored values.
+ [Götz Babin-Ebell <babinebell@trustcenter.de>]
+
*) Improve diagnostics in file reading and command-line digests.
[Ben Laurie aided and abetted by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>]
