[PATCH v2: setxkbmap 2/3] Bug 34151: Potential bug and buffer overflow due to misused rules filename

Dirk Wallenstein halsmit at t-online.de
Sat Feb 12 00:48:24 PST 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:01:58PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34151
> 
> Use rfName consistently, instead of sometimes reverting to svValue[RULES_NDX]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch is actually appearing for the first time in version 2 of this
> series.
> 
>  setxkbmap.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/setxkbmap.c b/setxkbmap.c
> index 511659b..9f92e2e 100644
> --- a/setxkbmap.c
> +++ b/setxkbmap.c
> @@ -850,13 +850,13 @@ applyRules(void)
>                            inclPath[i], rfName);
>                      continue;
>                  }
> -                sprintf(buf, "%s/rules/%s", inclPath[i], svValue[RULES_NDX]);
> +                sprintf(buf, "%s/rules/%s", inclPath[i], rfName);
>                  rules = XkbRF_Load(buf, svValue[LOCALE_NDX], True, True);
>              }
>          }
>          if (!rules)
>          {
> -            ERR1("Couldn't find rules file (%s) \n", svValue[RULES_NDX]);
> +            ERR1("Couldn't find rules file (%s) \n", rfname);
Typo:                                                   ^^^^^^ rfName

>              return False;
>          }
>          /* Let the rules file to the magic, then update the svValues with
> -- 
> 1.7.3.2
> 

There is another use of svValue[RULES_NDX] further down.

-- 
Greetings,
Dirk


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