Patch-ID# 101754-01
Keywords: col core
Synopsis: SunOS 5.3: col causes Segmentation fault and dumps core
Date: May/24/94

Solaris Release: 2.3

SunOS release: 5.3

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Topic: SunOS 5.3: col causes Segmentation fault and dumps core

BugId's fixed with this patch: 1164755

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Relevant Architectures: sparc

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Files included with this patch:

/usr/bin/col

Problem Description:

1164755 col causes Segmentation fault and dumps core.

The filter col was getting segmentation faults and dumping core, due to
its use of an uninitialized character pointer.  This patch initializes
that pointer correctly. 

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