[PATCH iceauth] Error out and avoid a call to malloc(0) if given a bad hex string

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat May 7 23:13:09 PDT 2011


On 04/28/11 12:53 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
> Found-by: clang static analyzer
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>
> ---
>  process.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/process.c b/process.c
> index f51e643..56b7aaf 100644
> --- a/process.c
> +++ b/process.c
> @@ -401,8 +401,8 @@ static int cvthexkey (	/* turn hex key string into octets */
>  	len++;
>      }
>  
> -    /* if odd then there was an error */
> -    if ((len & 1) == 1) return -1;
> +    /* if 0 or odd, then there was an error */
> +    if (len == 0 || (len & 1) == 1) return -1;
>  
>  
>      /* now we know that the input is good */

Looks like xauth needs the same fix.  (iceauth is mostly a
duplicate copy of xauth.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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