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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	luonengjun@huawei.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qga: Fix possible freed memory accessing
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:17:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541ACD75.1040708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411011222-5116-1-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>

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On 09/17/2014 09:33 PM, zhanghailiang wrote:
> If readdir_r fails, error_setg_errno will reference the freed
> pointer *dirpath*.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
> ---
>  qga/commands-posix.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

>      for (;;) {
>          if (readdir_r(dir, &entry, &result) != 0) {

Eww.  We're using readdir_r?  That's an inherently broken interface,
which can risk buffer overflow.  readdir should be preferred.

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18  3:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qga: Fix possible freed memory accessing zhanghailiang
2014-09-18  7:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-18 12:17 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-09-18 12:42   ` zhanghailiang
2014-09-18 12:53     ` Eric Blake

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