Make sure we don't dereference stray pointer when running suid or sgid

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
index ec56b0d390..c806f2dd85 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  */
 
 #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
-static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.15 1996/09/26 04:49:56 tholo Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.16 1996/09/26 15:22:19 tholo Exp $";
 #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
 
 /*
@@ -535,6 +535,8 @@ malloc_init ()
         } else if (i == 2) {
             p = malloc_options;
         }
+        else
+            p = NULL;
         for (; p && *p; p++) {
             switch (*p) {
                 case '>': malloc_cache   <<= 1; break;