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From: "Vincent Stehlé" <vincent.stehle@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools/proftool: fix use-after-free
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:35:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56152DC9.3060009@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151007141929.GO3829@bill-the-cat>

On 10/07/2015 04:19 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
..
> Were you in the Coverity talk too? :)

Hi Tom,

No, I was not following that talk, sorry.

..
>                         free(line);
> -                       return regex_report_error(&line->regex, err, "compile",
> +                       err = regex_report_error(&line->regex, err, "compile",
>                                                   tok);
> +                       return err;

I am not sure you solve the problem this way. Indeed the structure
pointed to by the line pointer will still have been freed before use
even this way. Who knows what the memory contains when regerror() will
access &line->regex, which is contained into the freed structure?

Best regards,

V.


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-07 13:48 [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools/proftool: fix use-after-free Vincent Stehlé
2015-10-07 14:19 ` Tom Rini
2015-10-07 14:35   ` Vincent Stehlé [this message]
2015-10-07 15:42     ` Tom Rini
2015-11-17  1:40 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini

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