check alloca; pointed out by nimadeus@pandora.be

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c b/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c
index edf2686607..df5c44a8ce 100644
--- a/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c
+++ b/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: netcat.c,v 1.63 2003/09/22 21:39:40 miod Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: netcat.c,v 1.64 2003/10/19 22:50:35 deraadt Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2001 Eric Jackson <ericj@monkey.org>
  *
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
                         break;
                 case 'x':
                         xflag = 1;
-                        proxy = strdup(optarg);
+                        if ((proxy = strdup(optarg)) == NULL)
+                                err(1, NULL);
                         break;
                 case 'z':
                         zflag = 1;