# [PATCH] git-blame: Fix overrun in fake_working_tree_commit()

1 messages from 2007-04-14 to 2007-04-14. Participants: Michael Spang.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7654

## Michael Spang, 2007-04-14 21:26

Subject: [PATCH] git-blame: Fix overrun in fake_working_tree_commit()
Message-ID: <462146FC.9060202@uwaterloo.ca>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/462146FC.9060202%40uwaterloo.ca

```
git-blame would overflow commit->buffer when annotating files with long paths.

Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
---
 builtin-blame.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-blame.c b/builtin-blame.c
index 60ec535..bc86bda 100644
--- a/builtin-blame.c
+++ b/builtin-blame.c
@@ -2041,7 +2041,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(const char *path, const char *con
 
 	commit->buffer = xmalloc(400);
 	ident = fmt_ident("Not Committed Yet", "not.committed.yet", NULL, 0);
-	sprintf(commit->buffer,
+	snprintf(commit->buffer, 400,
 		"tree 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n"
 		"parent %s\n"
 		"author %s\n"

```