[Libvir] PATCH: Avoid buffer out of bounds access in Xen capabilities
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 06:46:14 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:42:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The Xen driver uses a regex to process the hypervisor capabilities data
>
> "(xen|hvm)-[[:digit:]]+\\.[[:digit:]]+-(x86_32|x86_64|ia64|powerpc64)(p|be)?";
>
> notice how the last match group, however, is optional due to the '?'. The
> code processing matches does not check to see if the match is present or
> not, and just indexes the string on match 3
>
> if (strncmp (&token[subs[3].rm_so], "p", 1) == 0)
>
> Unfortunately, subs[3].rm_so is -1 if the match was not present, so we're
> doing an out of bounds array access here. This is fairly harmless, but it
> is still good to fix it. So this patch adds a check for -1 before accessing
> the match. I also replace the strncmp() calls with a call to the brand new
> STRPREFIX() convenience macro
Okidoc, i assume valgrind spotted that, that's fairly well hidden ...
+1
Daniel
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