From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:34:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix strcat() on uninitialized memory
Message-ID: <AANLkTimSFwn1yykyEOTRdHHBYTFUEhxqj2AinjRv9ECC@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1006141032250.2689@bonsai2>

Thanks, this was caught last week and patch posted by Thomas:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127619546001346&w=2

j.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Under certain circumstances, this bug would trigger a buffer overflow
> error with libc, and fail test 5516.
>
> Strbufs would have avoided the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  builtin/receive-pack.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> index 05071c3..1644424 100644
> --- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
> +++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> @@ -569,9 +569,9 @@ static void check_aliased_update(struct command *cmd, struct string_list *list)
>        dst_cmd->skip_update = 1;
>
>        strcpy(cmd_oldh, find_unique_abbrev(cmd->old_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
> -       strcat(cmd_newh, find_unique_abbrev(cmd->new_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
> +       strcpy(cmd_newh, find_unique_abbrev(cmd->new_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
>        strcpy(dst_oldh, find_unique_abbrev(dst_cmd->old_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
> -       strcat(dst_newh, find_unique_abbrev(dst_cmd->new_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
> +       strcpy(dst_newh, find_unique_abbrev(dst_cmd->new_sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
>        rp_error("refusing inconsistent update between symref '%s' (%s..%s) and"
>                 " its target '%s' (%s..%s)",
>                 cmd->ref_name, cmd_oldh, cmd_newh,
> --
> 1.7.1.msysgit.0.2.g2fefc8
>
>