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);
}