From: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:33:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: When the pointer 'from' changes, it's stored length needs to change as
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When the pointer 'from' changes, it's stored length needs to change as
well.

Notified by Frank Kardel <kardel@acm.org> in PR 879.
---

diff --git a/crypto/conf/conf_def.c b/crypto/conf/conf_def.c
index adc28eebff..aba2c9fd84 100644
--- a/crypto/conf/conf_def.c
+++ b/crypto/conf/conf_def.c
@@ -599,6 +599,11 @@ static int str_copy(CONF *conf, char *section, char **pto, char *from)
 			BUF_MEM_grow(buf,(strlen(p)+len-(e-from)));
 			while (*p)
 				buf->data[to++]= *(p++);
+
+			/* Since we change the pointer 'from', we also have
+			   to change the perceived length of the string it
+			   points at.  /RL */
+			len -= e-from;
 			from=e;
 			}
 		else