[PATCH libXi] Fix invalid read in XIGrabDevice.
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Tue Feb 22 16:22:36 PST 2011
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:36:06 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Miscalculation of length caused Data() to memcpy too many bytes.
>
> ==2865== Invalid read of size 1
> ==2865== at 0x4A07480: memcpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:602)
> ==2865== by 0x544271E: XIGrabDevice (XIGrabDevice.c:69)
> ==2865== by 0x400B0A: main (gnome642481.c:56)
> ==2865== Address 0x642f614 is 0 bytes after a block of size 20 alloc'd
> ==2865== at 0x4A04896: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:418)
> ==2865== by 0x54425D3: XIGrabDevice (XIGrabDevice.c:65)
> ==2865== by 0x400B0A: main (gnome642481.c:56)
>
> SetReqLen() expects 4-byte units.
> Data() expects bytes.
>
> Gnome Bug 642481 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642481>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
>
> src/XIGrabDevice.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/XIGrabDevice.c b/src/XIGrabDevice.c
> index 985d3f1..97ab971 100644
> --- a/src/XIGrabDevice.c
> +++ b/src/XIGrabDevice.c
> @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ XIGrabDevice(Display* dpy, int deviceid, Window grab_window, Time time,
>
> /* masks.mask_len is in bytes, but we need 4-byte units on the wire,
typo here (masks → mask)
> * and they need to be padded with 0 */
> - len = req->mask_len * 4;
> - buff = calloc(1, len);
> + len = req->mask_len;
> + buff = calloc(1, len * 4);
> memcpy(buff, mask->mask, mask->mask_len);
>
> SetReqLen(req, len, len);
Reviewed-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
Cheers,
Julien
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