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

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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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