[libvirt PATCH 00/19] Overhaul test/commandhelper.c

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Fri Jan 29 18:11:29 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 17:16:10 +0100, Tim Wiederhake wrote:
> I stumbled upon a buffer overflow / stack smash present in
> "test/commandhelper.c" that could be triggered by e.g.
> 
>   $ ./tests/commandhelper --readfd 0 --readfd 0 --readfd 0 --readfd x
>   Could not parse fd x
>   *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
>   Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> This series cleans up the file, fixes the buffer overflow and converts
> (most) memory handling to g_auto*.
> 
> Note that it does not touch the "prevent malloc with zero size" issue
> discussed in
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-January/msg01160.html,
> this will be done in the other series.
> 
> Please feel free to comment on whether the copyright year in the file's
> header should be updated and whether a prefix for the function names
> and the new type is required.

No and no.


For patches 1-2,4-16,19:

Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>

17, 18 use g_autofree which uses g_free which shouldn't be available.




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