[PATCH xf86-input-evdev] Fix buffer overrun when populating axis label property array

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed Jun 6 12:07:12 PDT 2012


The axis label property array currently only has enough elements for the
non-multitouch axes. This change allocates enough space for all axes,
which prevents an array overrun write. This may manifest as stack
corruption on some platforms.

Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
---
 src/evdev.c |    8 +++++---
 src/evdev.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/evdev.c b/src/evdev.c
index 4b86f66..a628273 100644
--- a/src/evdev.c
+++ b/src/evdev.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ EvdevAddAbsValuatorClass(DeviceIntPtr device)
     }
 #ifdef MULTITOUCH
     if (num_mt_axes_total > 0) {
+        pEvdev->num_mt_vals = num_mt_axes_total;
         pEvdev->mt_mask = valuator_mask_new(num_mt_axes_total);
         if (!pEvdev->mt_mask) {
             xf86Msg(X_ERROR, "%s: failed to allocate MT valuator mask.\n",
@@ -2879,7 +2880,8 @@ EvdevInitProperty(DeviceIntPtr dev)
         if ((pEvdev->num_vals > 0) && (prop_axis_label = XIGetKnownProperty(AXIS_LABEL_PROP)))
         {
             int mode;
-            Atom atoms[pEvdev->num_vals];
+            int num_axes = pEvdev->num_vals + pEvdev->num_mt_vals;
+            Atom atoms[num_axes];
 
             if (pEvdev->flags & EVDEV_ABSOLUTE_EVENTS)
                 mode = Absolute;
@@ -2890,9 +2892,9 @@ EvdevInitProperty(DeviceIntPtr dev)
                 mode = Absolute;
             }
 
-            EvdevInitAxesLabels(pEvdev, mode, pEvdev->num_vals, atoms);
+            EvdevInitAxesLabels(pEvdev, mode, num_axes, atoms);
             XIChangeDeviceProperty(dev, prop_axis_label, XA_ATOM, 32,
-                                   PropModeReplace, pEvdev->num_vals, atoms, FALSE);
+                                   PropModeReplace, num_axes, atoms, FALSE);
             XISetDevicePropertyDeletable(dev, prop_axis_label, FALSE);
         }
         /* Button labelling */
diff --git a/src/evdev.h b/src/evdev.h
index 309b215..c2f9246 100644
--- a/src/evdev.h
+++ b/src/evdev.h
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ typedef struct {
     int grabDevice;         /* grab the event device? */
 
     int num_vals;           /* number of valuators */
+    int num_mt_vals;        /* number of multitouch valuators */
     int axis_map[max(ABS_CNT, REL_CNT)]; /* Map evdev <axis> to index */
     ValuatorMask *vals;     /* new values coming in */
     ValuatorMask *old_vals; /* old values for calculating relative motion */
-- 
1.7.9.5



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