[Rspatial-devel] Need to release sp

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Sat Jun 11 00:14:27 CEST 2011


Hi,

I located and resolved the rgeos gUnionCascaded() buffer overflow to C 
code exported by sp. The fix is to measure the length of the buffer and 
allocate with R_alloc() instead of just BUFSIZ. I need to release sp so 
that the fix can be applied in rgeos.

Best wishes,

Roger

-- 
Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no



More information about the Rspatial-devel mailing list