findutils 4.1 bug

[in-gnu]

If you have a "updatedb" database which has a prefix length change
under -127 bytes, the incorrect "get_short" declaration of int causes
this number to be a large positive number (somewhere between 2^15 to
2^16-1) instead of a negative number (-2^0 - -2^15).  This causes a
core dump.

--- locate/locate.c     2002/09/08 02:32:25     1.1
+++ locate/locate.c     2002/09/08 02:32:28
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 
 /* Read in a 16-bit int, high byte first (network byte order).  */
 
-static int
+static short
 get_short (fp)
      FILE *fp;
 {