/* get the status line */
len = bufchain_size(&p->pending_input_data);
assert(len > 0); /* or we wouldn't be here */
- data = snewn(len, char);
+ data = snewn(len+1, char);
bufchain_fetch(&p->pending_input_data, data, len);
+ /*
+ * We must NUL-terminate this data, because Windows
+ * sscanf appears to require a NUL at the end of the
+ * string because it strlens it _first_. Sigh.
+ */
+ data[len] = '\0';
eol = get_line_end(data, len);
if (eol < 0) {