Fix HTTP request output parsing: Don't read past the curl buffer end

[bpdyndnsd] / src / httphelper.cpp

diff --git a/src/httphelper.cpp b/src/httphelper.cpp
index 997599a..eb35fd9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/httphelper.cpp
+++ b/src/httphelper.cpp
@@ -293,9 +293,8 @@ CURLcode HTTPHelper::set_curl_auth(const string& username, const string& passwor
  * @param outBuffer Pointer to output stream.
  * @return The size received.
  */
-size_t HTTPHelper::http_receive( const char *inBuffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, string *outBuffer )
+size_t HTTPHelper::http_receive( void *inBuffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, string *outBuffer )
 {
-    outBuffer->append(inBuffer);
+    outBuffer->append(static_cast<char *>(inBuffer), size*nmemb);
     return (size*nmemb);
-}
-
+} //lint !e818