Segmentation fault in art.c linh 853

[fjpc at ccom.uminho.pt]

My innd server 2.2 started core dumping whith seg fault. I upgraded to 2.2.1 but the seg. fault continued.
I debugged de core and found out that it was trying to memcpy to a null address.
A _very_ quick browse through the code lead me to the (probably absurd) patch bellow applied to art.c in the innd.
Can anyone please check if there is a better way to solve this problem?

Thankyou.

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> 
> // I may be adding a memory leak in here... But I'm quite desperate... FJPC - 19991005
>     if(! hp->Value)
>     {
>	hp->Value = (char *) malloc((SIZE_T)(i + 1));
>     }

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