From c162742e0d3cc73402993fd6e5d6bda018c09fb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:58:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * libltdl/ltdl.c (trim): Return error rather than do bogus
 null pointer arithmetic when parsing a malformed .la file.

---
 ChangeLog      | 5 +++++
 libltdl/ltdl.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 485b572b5..8ef7596cb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	* libltdl/ltdl.c (trim): Return error rather than do bogus
+	null pointer arithmetic when parsing a malformed .la file.
+
 2004-12-13  Albert Chin-A-Young  <china@thewrittenword.com>
 
 	* libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_CXX_CONFIG,
diff --git a/libltdl/ltdl.c b/libltdl/ltdl.c
index cd99acceb..c89690c02 100644
--- a/libltdl/ltdl.c
+++ b/libltdl/ltdl.c
@@ -2997,6 +2997,9 @@ trim (dest, str)
 
   LT_DLFREE (*dest);
 
+  if (!end)
+    return 1;
+
   if (len > 3 && str[0] == '\'')
     {
       tmp = LT_EMALLOC (char, end - str);
-- 
2.47.3