[Bug libc/13231] New: setenv ("NAME", NULL) corrupts environment

["robert.ancell at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13231

             Bug #: 13231
           Summary: setenv ("NAME", NULL) corrupts environment
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: drepper.fsp@gmail.com
        ReportedBy: robert.ancell@gmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified


Created attachment 5948
  --> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5948
Proposed patch, which treats NULL value as "" (which I think is what the
current code intends).

setenv ("NAME", NULL) corrupts the environment. It doesn't seem specified what
the function should do when value is NULL, but the code does check for it - it
just does the wrong thing:

stdlib/setenv.c:
...
__add_to_environ (name, value, combined, replace)
...
  const size_t vallen = value != NULL ? strlen (value) + 1 : 0;
...
      memcpy (new_value, name, namelen);
      new_value[namelen] = '=';
      memcpy (&new_value[namelen + 1], value, vallen);
...

i.e. the new value is set to "NAME=" without the trailing nul character.

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