Bug#497649: Broken security patch for WordNet

[Nico Golde]

Hi Andreas,
* Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> [2008-09-05 15:40]:
[...] 
>   This part of the patch is completely broken, breaks funktionality of
>      wordnet test -synsn
>   and I really wonder in how far a "strcpy(bufstart, tmpbuf);" is a
>   security fix compared to "strncpy(bufstart, tmpbuf, strlen(tmpbuf));"
>   Who did this patch????

As far as I know this was part of the patch by oCert. 
However its not a security fix but just a cleanup as both 
function calls are equal.

[...] 
Cheers
Nico
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