[PATCH v2] Fix writes past the allocated array bounds in execvpe (BZ#20847)

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Nov 22 13:55:00 GMT 2016


On Nov 21 2016, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:

> @@ -91,10 +92,11 @@ __execvpe (const char *file, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
>    /* Although GLIBC does not enforce NAME_MAX, we set it as the maximum
>       size to avoid unbounded stack allocation.  Same applies for
>       PATH_MAX.  */
> -  size_t file_len = __strnlen (file, NAME_MAX + 1);
> +  size_t file_len = __strnlen (file, NAME_MAX) + 1;
>    size_t path_len = __strnlen (path, PATH_MAX - 1) + 1;
>  
> -  if ((file_len > NAME_MAX)
> +  /* NAME_MAX does not include the terminating null character.  */
> +  if (((file_len-1) > NAME_MAX)

Spaces around operator and remove redundant parens.

Andreas.

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