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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: PATCH: spelling correction buffer overflow
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:39:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3579.1522103995@thecus> (raw)

In utils.c:spname(), there's no checking on newname[] for overflows in
two out the of three places where it is appended to.

returning NULL appears to abort the command-line rather than aborting
only correction which is perhaps not ideal but the aim here is not to
corrupt other bits of memory.

This also tweaks the struncpy() function I updated in the earlier patch.

Oliver

diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index 998b16220..9ea34ab54 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -2283,7 +2283,8 @@ struncpy(char **s, char *t, int n)
 {
     char *u = *s;
 
-    while (n-- && (*u++ = *t++));
+    while (n-- && (*u = *t++))
+	u++;
     *s = u;
     if (n > 0) /* just one null-byte will do, unlike strncpy(3) */
 	*u = '\0';
@@ -4420,17 +4421,20 @@ spname(char *oldname)
 	     * odd to the human reader, and we may make use of the total  *
 	     * distance for all corrections at some point in the future.  */
 	    if (bestdist < maxthresh) {
-		strcpy(new, spnameguess);
-		strcat(new, old);
-		return newname;
+		struncpy(&new, spnameguess, sizeof(newname) - (new - newname));
+		struncpy(&new, old, sizeof(newname) - (new - newname));
+		return (new - newname) >= (sizeof(newname)-1) ? NULL : newname;
 	    } else
 	    	return NULL;
 	} else {
 	    maxthresh = bestdist + thresh;
 	    bestdist += thisdist;
 	}
-	for (p = spnamebest; (*new = *p++);)
+	for (p = spnamebest; (*new = *p++);) {
+	    if ((new - newname) >= (sizeof(newname)-1))
+		return NULL;
 	    new++;
+	}
     }
 }
 


             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-27  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-26 22:39 Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2018-03-27 21:55 ` Kamil Dudka
2018-03-27 23:10   ` Bart Schaefer
2018-03-28  8:01     ` Kamil Dudka
2018-03-28 11:20   ` Kamil Dudka
2018-03-28 14:07     ` Oliver Kiddle
2018-03-29  8:42       ` Kamil Dudka

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