2000-03-02

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_4@630 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index 1e51110a96..66eee2a65f 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -265,6 +265,9 @@ rb_str_times(str, times)
     if (len < 0) {
 	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "negative argument");
     }
+    if (LONG_MAX / len <  RSTRING(str)->len) {
+	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "argument too big");
+    }
 
     str2 = rb_str_new(0, RSTRING(str)->len*len);
     for (i=0; i<len; i++) {