PHP 4.0 Bug #10252: strcat() used on uninitialized string

From: dzoll@nyscul.org Operating system: linux PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: ODBC related Bug description: strcat() used on uninitialized string I was getting intermittent errors connecting to databases. Sometimes it would work fine, sometimes my connect string would turn to gibberish and sometimes the process would segfault. On further examination, in ext/odbc/php_odbc.c:odbc_sqlconnect(), within the if(strstr(char *)db,";") block, there is a line "strcat(ldb,db);". At this point in the code, ldb was just emalloced, and had uninitialized contents. I think strcpy() is more appopriate here, and changing the code to this seems to have cleared up my errors. Thank you very much. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10252&edit=1