[libvirt] [PATCH] buf: protect against integer overflow

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Jun 24 20:08:11 UTC 2011


It's unlikely that we'll ever want to escape a string as long as
INT_MAX/6, but adding this check can't hurt.

* src/util/buf.c (virBufferEscapeSexpr, virBufferEscapeString):
Check for (unlikely) overflow.
---
 src/util/buf.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/buf.c b/src/util/buf.c
index 750e277..5002486 100644
--- a/src/util/buf.c
+++ b/src/util/buf.c
@@ -311,7 +311,8 @@ virBufferEscapeString(const virBufferPtr buf, const char *format, const char *st
         return;
     }

-    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(escaped, 6 * len + 1) < 0) {
+    if (xalloc_oversized(6, len) ||
+        VIR_ALLOC_N(escaped, 6 * len + 1) < 0) {
         virBufferSetError(buf);
         return;
     }
@@ -398,7 +399,8 @@ virBufferEscapeSexpr(const virBufferPtr buf,
         return;
     }

-    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(escaped, 2 * len + 1) < 0) {
+    if (xalloc_oversized(2, len) ||
+        VIR_ALLOC_N(escaped, 2 * len + 1) < 0) {
         virBufferSetError(buf);
         return;
     }
-- 
1.7.4.4




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