The following reply was made to PR bin/148733; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/148733: a potential buffer overflow  in sh(1)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:38:55 +0200

 > [buffer overflow in sh(1) pathname generation]
 
 You are right, there is a possible heap buffer overflow here. It is
 rather unlikely in normal usage because the kernel does not accept
 pathnames longer than 1023 bytes, but still possible.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker
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