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[PATCH] parse_tag_buffer(): avoid out of bound access

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 18, 2011, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID
<1298033372-29069-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<4D5D17F7.4010003@lsrfire.ath.cx>

There is a check (size < 64) at the beginning of the function, but that only covers object+type lines. Code for parsing "tag" and "tagger" may access outside buffer. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:43 PM, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
 > memchr() won't notice if a negative value has been passed as third parameter
 > because its type is size_t, which is unsigned.  Negative values are
 > converted to big positive ones..
 I did not notice that. Fixed commit message.
 tag.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index ecf7c1e..7d38cc0 100644
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, const void *data, unsigned long size)
 		item->tagged = NULL;
 	}
 
-	if (prefixcmp(bufptr, "tag "))
+	if (bufptr + 4 < tail && !prefixcmp(bufptr, "tag "))
+		; 		/* good */
+	else
 		return -1;
 	bufptr += 4;
 	nl = memchr(bufptr, '\n', tail - bufptr);
@@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, const void *data, unsigned long size)
 	item->tag = xmemdupz(bufptr, nl - bufptr);
 	bufptr = nl + 1;
 
-	if (!prefixcmp(bufptr, "tagger "))
+	if (bufptr + 7 < tail && !prefixcmp(bufptr, "tagger "))
 		item->date = parse_tag_date(bufptr, tail);
 	else
 		item->date = 0;
-- 
1.7.4.74.g639db
Previous: René Scharfe
Message 9 of 9 in “Add const to parse_{commit,tag}_buffer()”
  1. 1/2 Add const to parse_{commit,tag}_buffer()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 5, 2011
  2. 2/2 Make hash-object more robust against malformed objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 5, 2011
  3. Thomas RastFeb 12, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 12, 2011
  5. parse_tag_buffer(): do not prefixcmp() out of rangeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 16, 2011
  8. René ScharfeFeb 17, 2011
  9. parse_tag_buffer(): avoid out of bound accessNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 18, 2011

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