From: Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 15:28:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: cgi: Fix showing query string in Help
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cgi: Fix showing query string in Help

If a string was searched on CUPS Web UI help page, garbage was printed
out in search box. It was because text field pointer was freed before
and contained garbage - previously it was variable value which was
allocated, so the string survived `cgCleanVariables(()`, but the text
field is a pointer into form variables which gets cleaned up.

Fix is to use `strdup()` if `cgiGetTextfield()` returns non-NULL
pointer. The binary exits shortly after either way, so memory is taken
care of by OS.
---

diff --git a/cgi-bin/help.c b/cgi-bin/help.c
index e85dcdedf4..4b18f0dbdf 100644
--- a/cgi-bin/help.c
+++ b/cgi-bin/help.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ main(int  argc,				/* I - Number of command-line arguments */
 		*si;			/* Search index */
   help_node_t	*n;			/* Current help node */
   int		i;			/* Looping var */
-  const char	*query;			/* Search query */
+  const char	*query = NULL;		/* Search query */
   const char	*cache_dir;		/* CUPS_CACHEDIR environment variable */
   const char	*docroot;		/* CUPS_DOCROOT environment variable */
   const char	*helpfile,		/* Current help file */
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ main(int  argc,				/* I - Number of command-line arguments */
 
   if (cgiGetVariable("CLEAR"))
     cgiSetVariable("QUERY", "");
+  else if ((query = cgiGetTextfield("QUERY")) != NULL)
+    query = strdup(query);
 
-  query = cgiGetTextfield("QUERY");
   si    = helpSearchIndex(hi, query, topic, helpfile);
 
   cgiClearVariables();