[Libguestfs] hivex.c: unchecked calloc

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 4 11:34:14 UTC 2009


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> There's an unchecked calloc in hivex.c's hive_open:
> 
>   h->bitmap = calloc (1 + h->size / 32, 1);
>   ...
> This subsequent deref could cause a segfault:
> 
>         BITMAP_SET (h->bitmap, blkoff);

Thanks - I pushed this to fix it:

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=f95c697a44c321dd1d370620515aa71a71a4ad5b

Rich.

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