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Potential use of unitialized variable in scriptlet execution

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      Findings from https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-22390:

      Error: UNINIT (CWE-457):
      rpm-4.16.1.3/lib/rpmscript.c:274: var_decl: Declaring variable "inpipe" without initializer.
      rpm-4.16.1.3/lib/rpmscript.c:398: uninit_use: Using uninitialized value "inpipe[0]".

      1. 396| fclose(in);
      2. 397|
      3. 398|-> if (inpipe[0])
      4. 399| close(inpipe[0]);
      5. 400|

       

      inpipe can be uninitialized in the case writing the to-be-executed scriptlet to the disk failed. Closing a random file descriptor could have weird effects of course.

              mdomonko@redhat.com Michal Domonkos
              rhn-support-pmatilai Panu Matilainen
              packaging-team-maint packaging-team-maint
              Tomas Bajer Tomas Bajer
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