On Freitag, 3. September 2021 19:44:49 CEST Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Per
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/port-your-module-from-g-memdup-to-g-memdup2-n
> ow/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/9pfs/9p-synth.c | 2 +-
> hw/9pfs/9p.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-synth.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-synth.c
> index b38088e0664..d6168c653d2 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-synth.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-synth.c
> @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ static int synth_name_to_path(FsContext *ctx, V9fsPath
> *dir_path, out:
> /* Copy the node pointer to fid */
> g_free(target->data);
> - target->data = g_memdup(&node, sizeof(void *));
> + target->data = g_memdup2(&node, sizeof(void *));
> target->size = sizeof(void *);
> return 0;
> }
That's Ok, trivial change.
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p.c b/hw/9pfs/9p.c
> index c857b313213..a80166fcaff 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p.c
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ void v9fs_path_copy(V9fsPath *dst, const V9fsPath *src)
> {
> v9fs_path_free(dst);
> dst->size = src->size;
> - dst->data = g_memdup(src->data, src->size);
> + dst->data = g_memdup2(src->data, src->size);
> }
>
> int v9fs_name_to_path(V9fsState *s, V9fsPath *dirpath,
src->size is actually just 16 bit (fsdev/file-op-9p.h):
struct V9fsPath {
uint16_t size;
char *data;
};
Should (still) be Ok as well as V9fsPath is about file system pathes which are
currently limited to 4k (PATH_MAX).
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <[email protected]>
Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck
