[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix latent buffer overflow in qemudOpenMonitorUnix.

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Fri Jul 31 13:20:09 UTC 2009


Fix a possible latent bug in qemudOpenMonitorUnix().  If the pathname
to the monitor is very long (i.e. >= UNIX_MAX_PATH), then strncpy will
*not* place a final \0 on the string (see "man strncpy").
NULL terminate the buffer to ensure we don't run off the end.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu_driver.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
index 9fcc07a..4f173b7 100644
--- a/src/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
@@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ qemudOpenMonitorUnix(virConnectPtr conn,
     memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
     addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
     strncpy(addr.sun_path, monitor, sizeof(addr.sun_path));
+    NUL_TERMINATE(addr.sun_path);
 
     do {
         ret = connect(monfd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr));
-- 
1.6.0.6




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