From 885061687d9caa38470979667d7d8ad6563cedad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Safranek <jsafranek@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:11:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of (insecure) SNMP_MAXPATH in mkdirhier()

---
 snmplib/system.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/snmplib/system.c b/snmplib/system.c
index 8b3bbb836a..3422cc8ca9 100644
--- a/snmplib/system.c
+++ b/snmplib/system.c
@@ -1022,9 +1022,13 @@ mkdirhier(const char *pathname, mode_t mode, int skiplast)
     struct stat     sbuf;
     char           *ourcopy = strdup(pathname);
     char           *entry;
-    char            buf[SNMP_MAXPATH];
+    char           *buf;
     char           *st = NULL;
 
+    buf = malloc(strlen(pathname));
+    if (!buf)
+        return SNMPERR_GENERR;
+
 #if defined (WIN32) || defined (cygwin)
     /* convert backslash to forward slash */
     for (entry = ourcopy; *entry; entry++)
@@ -1069,6 +1073,7 @@ mkdirhier(const char *pathname, mode_t mode, int skiplast)
 #endif
             {
                 free(ourcopy);
+                free(buf);
                 return SNMPERR_GENERR;
             }
         } else {
@@ -1080,11 +1085,13 @@ mkdirhier(const char *pathname, mode_t mode, int skiplast)
                  * ack! can't make a directory on top of a file 
                  */
                 free(ourcopy);
+                free(buf);
                 return SNMPERR_GENERR;
             }
         }
     }
     free(ourcopy);
+    free(buf);
     return SNMPERR_SUCCESS;
 }