From 94bff40f4198c60eda7a71f9887fa4f3373b37a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SchrodingersMind <53609030+SchrodingersMind@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:34:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix  #144

malloc() call doesn't zero-ed allocated memory, resulting in appending `thePath` to some garbage in strncat(). It's better to use strncpy()
---
 src/pdfalto.cc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pdfalto.cc b/src/pdfalto.cc
index 0a22164..783b1d6 100644
--- a/src/pdfalto.cc
+++ b/src/pdfalto.cc
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
     char *dirname;
     dirname = (char*)malloc(dirname_length + 1);
-    strncat(dirname, thePath, dirname_length); 
+    strncpy(dirname, thePath, dirname_length); 
     dirname[dirname_length] = '\0';
 
     // set the config file path as alongside the executable
@@ -473,4 +473,4 @@ void removeAlreadyExistingData(GString *dir) {
         if (file) delete file;
         closedir(rep);
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}