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h_resolv: Fix a buffer overflow in load().
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Authored by jhb on Dec 27 2022, 10:25 PM.
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Summary

fgetln() returns a pointer to an array of characters that is 'len'
characters long, not 'len + 1'. While here, overwriting the contents
of the buffer returned by fgetln isn't really safe, so switch to using
getline() instead.

Note that these fixes are a subset of those applied to a
near-identical copy of this function in libc's resolv_test.c in commit
2afeaad315ac19450389b8f2befdbe7c91c37818.

Reported by: CHERI (buffer overflow)

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