diff -up blender-2.49b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/storage.c.sf blender-2.49b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/storage.c

--- blender-2.49b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/storage.c.sf	2010-03-28 10:14:15.140027561 +0200

+++ blender-2.49b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/storage.c	2010-03-28 10:19:55.630278553 +0200

@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ void BLI_adddirstrings()

 			struct passwd *pwuser;

 			pwuser = getpwuid(files[num].s.st_uid);

 			if ( pwuser ) {

-			strcpy(files[num].owner, pwuser->pw_name);

+			  strncpy(files[num].owner, pwuser->pw_name, sizeof(files[num].owner)-1);

+                          files[num].owner[sizeof(files[num].owner)-1] = '\0';

 			} else {

 				sprintf(files[num].owner, "%d", files[num].s.st_uid);

             }