# [PATCH] wincred: avoid memory corruption 1 messages from 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-17. Participants: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64497 ## Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, 2025-11-17 20:39 Subject: [PATCH] wincred: avoid memory corruption Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/pull.2005.git.1763411984773.gitgitgadget%40gmail.com ``` From: David Macek `wcsncpy_s()` wants to write the terminating null character so we need to allocate one more space for it in the target memory block. This should fix crashes when trying to read passwords. When this happened, the password/token wouldn't print out and Git would therefore ask for a new password every time. Signed-off-by: David Macek Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- wincred: Avoid memory corruption This patch wants to be upstreamed... Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2005%2Fdscho%2Fwincred-Avoid-memory-corruption-5856--v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2005/dscho/wincred-Avoid-memory-corruption-5856--v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2005 contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c b/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c index 5683846b4b..73c2b9b72a 100644 --- a/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c +++ b/contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static void get_credential(void) write_item("username", creds[i]->UserName, creds[i]->UserName ? wcslen(creds[i]->UserName) : 0); if (creds[i]->CredentialBlobSize > 0) { - secret = xmalloc(creds[i]->CredentialBlobSize); + secret = xmalloc(creds[i]->CredentialBlobSize + sizeof(WCHAR)); wcsncpy_s(secret, creds[i]->CredentialBlobSize, (LPCWSTR)creds[i]->CredentialBlob, creds[i]->CredentialBlobSize / sizeof(WCHAR)); line = wcstok_s(secret, L"\r\n", &remaining_lines); write_item("password", line, line ? wcslen(line) : 0); base-commit: 9a2fb147f2c61d0cab52c883e7e26f5b7948e3ed -- gitgitgadget ```