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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-08-25 03:22:02 -0500
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-08-25 03:22:02 -0500
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Static analysis from Hyejin Kim found possible pointer underflow.
Now that the kernel's 128k environment size has been lifted, it might be possible to feed in a gigabyte of suffix so argv[2] is enough larger than argv[1] that char *s decrements past NULL and points to arbitrary high memory (I.E. strlen(suffix) > (long)base), at which point the base > s test is defeated and we strcmp() against a wild pointer. Which is read only anyway and on 64 bit you probably couldn't hit any interesting addresses, but the fix is easy enough: compare strlen values instead of pointers. So do that instead.
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