Patches item #1848295, was opened at 2007-12-10 19:53 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478072&aid=1848295...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: puredata Group: bugfix Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Russell Bryant (russellbryant) Assigned to: Miller Puckette (millerpuckette) Summary: Fix small potential stack overflow
Initial Comment: Attached is a patch to fix another potential stack buffer overflow in s_main.c. I didn't send this over in private because I don't think it can be exploited in any useful way, so it's just a small bug.
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2007-12-26 16:45
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checked into branch-v0-40-extended
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Comment By: Russell Bryant (russellbryant) Date: 2007-12-10 21:41
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Also, let me just clarify my original summary just a little bit.
You can cause the overrun of the buffer by providing a really long input string to the -schedlib command line option. It's just not exploitable in such a way that it would be considered a security issue.
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Comment By: Russell Bryant (russellbryant) Date: 2007-12-10 21:38
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I'm sorry for the stupid typo. That code is actually only compiled in for a Windows build (whenever MSW is defined), so I didn't notice.
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Comment By: Russell Bryant (russellbryant) Date: 2007-12-10 21:36
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File Added: filename_overflow.patch2.txt
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2007-12-10 20:18
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I am guessing there is a typo in that patch, since the new line also uses sprintf() instead of snprintf():
- sprintf(filename, "%s.dll", sys_externalschedlibname); + sprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s.dll", sys_externalschedlibname);
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