From 017cb2be687cda247594de55f5b54ef3df1938be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 18:58:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not dereference NULL per bug report from Victor V.
 Vengerov <vvv@oktet.ru>.

---
 c/src/exec/score/src/objectcopynamestring.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/c/src/exec/score/src/objectcopynamestring.c b/c/src/exec/score/src/objectcopynamestring.c
index cd0779d546..eb196f3d25 100644
--- a/c/src/exec/score/src/objectcopynamestring.c
+++ b/c/src/exec/score/src/objectcopynamestring.c
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ void _Objects_Copy_name_string(
   unsigned8 *source_p = (unsigned8 *) source;
   unsigned8 *destination_p = (unsigned8 *) destination;
  
-  do {
-    *destination_p++ = *source_p;
-  } while ( *source_p++ );
+  *destination_p = '\0';
+  if ( source_p ) {
+    do {
+      *destination_p++ = *source_p;
+    } while ( *source_p++ );
+  }
 }