Per https://discourse.gnome.org/t/port-your-module-from-g-memdup-to-g-memdup2-now/5538
The old API took the size of the memory to duplicate as a guint, whereas most memory functions take memory sizes as a gsize. This made it easy to accidentally pass a gsize to g_memdup(). For large values, that would lead to a silent truncation of the size from 64 to 32 bits, and result in a heap area being returned which is significantly smaller than what the caller expects. This can likely be exploited in various modules to cause a heap buffer overflow. Replace g_memdup() by the safer g_memdup2() wrapper. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> --- hw/i386/multiboot.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/i386/multiboot.c b/hw/i386/multiboot.c index 9e7d69d4705..754415d17f3 100644 --- a/hw/i386/multiboot.c +++ b/hw/i386/multiboot.c @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ int load_multiboot(FWCfgState *fw_cfg, mb_debug(" mb_mods_count = %d", mbs.mb_mods_count); /* save bootinfo off the stack */ - mb_bootinfo_data = g_memdup(bootinfo, sizeof(bootinfo)); + mb_bootinfo_data = g_memdup2(bootinfo, sizeof(bootinfo)); /* Pass variables to option rom */ fw_cfg_add_i32(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_KERNEL_ENTRY, mh_entry_addr); -- 2.31.1
