[BusyBox 0001520]: Incorrect usage of strncat in coreutils/stat.c

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1520 
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Reported By:                d3z
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   1520
Category:                   Security
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             10-04-2007 00:19 PDT
Last Modified:              10-04-2007 00:19 PDT
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Summary:                    Incorrect usage of strncat in coreutils/stat.c
Description: 
coreutils/stat.c contains numerous instances of 'strncat' that are
incorrect.

  strncat(pformat, "s", buf_len);

should instead read something like:

  strncat(pformat, "s", buf_len-strlen(pformat)-1);

This could cause a buffer overflow if the buffer size computations were
incorrect.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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10-04-07 00:19  d3z            New Issue                                    
10-04-07 00:19  d3z            Status                   new => assigned     
10-04-07 00:19  d3z            Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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