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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.0-evdns-fix-searching-empty-hostnames.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.0-evdns-fix-searching-empty-hostnames.patch
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+Fix OOB read on empty hostnames in evdns.
+
+Upstream bug report:
+
+https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/332
+
+Patch copied from upstream source repository:
+
+https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/ec65c42052d95d2c23d1d837136d1cf1d9ecef9e
+
+From a0305cec166a5bc89f1eb362510cc4cd25ecc0bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:33:47 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] evdns: fix searching empty hostnames
+
+---
+ evdns.c | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/evdns.c b/evdns.c
+index 137c24ea..6191c677 100644
+--- a/evdns.c
++++ b/evdns.c
+@@ -3122,9 +3122,12 @@ search_set_from_hostname(struct evdns_base *base) {
+ static char *
+ search_make_new(const struct search_state *const state, int n, const char *const base_name) {
+ const size_t base_len = strlen(base_name);
+- const char need_to_append_dot = base_name[base_len - 1] == '.' ? 0 : 1;
++ char need_to_append_dot;
+ struct search_domain *dom;
+
++ if (!base_len) return NULL;
++ need_to_append_dot = base_name[base_len - 1] == '.' ? 0 : 1;
++
+ for (dom = state->head; dom; dom = dom->next) {
+ if (!n--) {
+ /* this is the postfix we want */
+--
+2.11.0
+