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Fix possible buffer overflow(s) in link_ntoa(3).

Description

Fix possible buffer overflow(s) in link_ntoa(3).

A specially crafted sockaddr_dl argument can trigger a static buffer overflow
in the libc library, with possibility to rewrite with arbitrary data following
static buffers that belong to other library functions.

Reviewed by: kib
Security: FreeBSD-SA-16:37.libc

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Provenance
glebiusAuthored on
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kib
Parents
rS309638: When telnetd(8) composes argument list for login(1), an unexpected sequence
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