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patch #7078: fix potential string overflows in 0.1.2.6

Submitter:  Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>
Submitted:  Sun 31 Jan 2010 12:19:33 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  Wont Do Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  simulavr

Sun 31 Jan 2010 11:39:22 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes, you did it right. I only went after the obvious. Sorry.

strncat() should not be used anyway. It was designed to fool the user. Nobody would assume that POSIX blessed an interface where both caller and function would need to count the bytes.


Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>
Sun 31 Jan 2010 12:41:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Nice catch. (Oh those pesky C string functions. How difficult to get right. And how boring.)

However the strncat() copies the specified number of bytes plus NUL byte. See wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strcat#strncat
"Common mistakes are..."
In the original patch it overwrites one byte. This new one does not, I hope.

(file #19585)

Petr Hluzin <petrh>
Group Member
Sun 31 Jan 2010 12:19:33 PM UTC, original submission:  

I've compiled with latest gcc-4.4.1 and at extra mean warning levels. This is what I found:

old style flex output must be pampered with to allow ignoring returnvalue of fwrite().
strncat() third parameter must be remaining size in buffer, not total size().

Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>

 

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Attached Files
file #19585:  happy_gcc_v2.patch added by petrh (2KiB - text/x-diff - file #19581 + fixed 1B overwrite)
file #19581:  happy_gcc.patch added by jnweiger (2KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    2010-01-31 petrh Attached File- Added happy_gcc_v2.patch, #19585
    2010-01-31 jnweiger Attached File- Added happy_gcc.patch, #19581

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