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From: Kay Potthoff <kaypotthoff@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtdparts: fixed buffer overflow bug
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:19:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717061939.6034-1-Kay.Potthoff@microsys.de> (raw)

In the case that there was no name defined for a partition the
code assumes that name_len is 22 and therefore allocates exactly
that space for a dummy name. But the function sprintf() first
resolves "0x%08llx at 0x%08llx" to a string that is longer than 22
bytes. This leads to a buffer overflow. The replacement function
snprintf() limits the copied bytes to name_len and therefore
avoids the buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Kay Potthoff <Kay.Potthoff@microsys.de>
---
 cmd/mtdparts.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/mtdparts.c b/cmd/mtdparts.c
index 9bc977450cf8..d0cda1bea400 100644
--- a/cmd/mtdparts.c
+++ b/cmd/mtdparts.c
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ static int part_parse(const char *const partdef, const char **ret, struct part_i
 		part->auto_name = 0;
 	} else {
 		/* auto generated name in form of size at offset */
-		sprintf(part->name, "0x%08llx at 0x%08llx", size, offset);
+		snprintf(part->name, name_len, "0x%08llx at 0x%08llx", size, offset);
 		part->auto_name = 1;
 	}
 
-- 
2.17.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17  6:19 Kay Potthoff [this message]
2018-07-26 19:54 ` [U-Boot] mtdparts: fixed buffer overflow bug Tom Rini

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