Re: [PATCH 1/1] get_sha1_hex(): do not read past a NUL character

> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Previously, get_sha1_hex() would read one character past the end of a
> > null-terminated string whose strlen was an even number less than 40.
> > Although the function correctly returned -1 in these cases, the extra
> > memory access might have been to uninitialized (or even, conceivably,
> > unallocated) memory.
> >
> > Add a check to avoid reading past the end of a string.
> 
> Makes sense; thanks.