[hackers] [sent][PATCH] Avoid out-of-bounds access when a slide input line begins with \0

From: Chris Down <chris_AT_chrisdown.name>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 18:51:02 +0100

If we read in a line with \0 at the beginning, blen will be 0. However,
we then try to index our copy of the buffer with
s->lines[s->linecount][blen-1], we'll read (and potentially write if the
data happens to be 0x0A) outside of strdup's allocated memory, and may
crash.

Fix this by just rejecting lines with a leading \0. Lines with nulls
embedded in other places don't invoke similar behaviour, since the
length is still >0.

---
 sent.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sent.c b/sent.c
index c50a572..f9dcd75 100644
--- a/sent.c
+++ b/sent.c
_AT_@ -428,6 +428,10 @@ load(FILE *fp)
 		maxlines = 0;
 		memset((s = &slides[slidecount]), 0, sizeof(Slide));
 		do {
+			/* if there's a leading null, we can't do blen-1 */
+			if (!*buf)
+				continue;
+
 			if (buf[0] == '#')
 				continue;
 
-- 
2.26.2

Received on Tue May 12 2020 - 19:51:02 CEST