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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/environ.cc8
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 1192a06f4..dea1593f3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-01-11 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+ * environ.cc (build_env): Disallow empty strings and strings starting
+ with '=' in Win32 environment.
+
2005-01-08 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
* syscalls.cc (seteuid32): Only change the default dacl when
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc
index 4b15df253..8605cf2e6 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc
@@ -957,6 +957,14 @@ build_env (const char * const *envp, char *&envblock, int &envc,
win_env *conv;
len = strcspn (*srcp, "=") + 1;
+ /* Check for a bad entry. This is necessary to get rid of empty
+ strings, induced by putenv and changing the string afterwards.
+ Note that this doesn't stop invalid strings without '=' in it
+ etc., but we're opting for speed here for now. Adding complete
+ checking would be pretty expensive. */
+ if (len == 1)
+ continue;
+
/* See if this entry requires posix->win32 conversion. */
conv = getwinenv (*srcp, *srcp + len);
if (conv)