From: divverent <divverent@d7cf8633-e32d-0410-b094-e92efae38249>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: MSG_ReadString: if hitting the max length of the string, continue to read until NUL... 
X-Git-Tag: xonotic-v0.6.0~163^2~351
X-Git-Url: https://git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic%2Fdarkplaces.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c586d061e7308e0e8164827fa0e14b470921d67

MSG_ReadString: if hitting the max length of the string, continue to read until NUL anyway (prevents msg_badread when reading an overlong string)

git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/twilight/trunk/darkplaces@11195 d7cf8633-e32d-0410-b094-e92efae38249
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diff --git a/common.c b/common.c
index 8e9bf40a..5539b0af 100644
--- a/common.c
+++ b/common.c
@@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ char *MSG_ReadString (void)
 	int l,c;
 	for (l = 0;l < (int) sizeof(string) - 1 && (c = MSG_ReadByte()) != -1 && c != 0;l++)
 		string[l] = c;
+	// read the rest of the string anyway
+	while(c != -1 && c != 0)
+		c = MSG_ReadByte();
 	string[l] = 0;
 	return string;
 }