Re: [PATCH] dns_resolver: assure that dns_query() result is null-terminated

From: Manuel Schoelling
Date: Sat Jun 07 2014 - 14:57:48 EST


LOL, that was stupid!
Sorry, I'll send a corrected version in a second...

On Sa, 2014-06-07 at 14:54 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Manuel SchÃlling
> <manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > dns_query() credulously assumes that keys are null-terminated and
> > returns a copy of a memory block that is off by one.
> > ---
> > net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
> > index e7b6d53..53be635 100644
> > --- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
> > +++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
> > @@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
> > if (!*_result)
> > goto put;
> >
> > - memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len + 1);
> > + memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len);
> > + *_result[len+1] = '\0';
>
> Off by one...
>
> > +
> > if (_expiry)
> > *_expiry = rkey->expiry;
> >
> > --
> > 1.7.10.4
> >
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