PERFORCE change 32072 for review

Adam Migus adam at migus.org
Thu May 29 23:42:35 GMT 2003


Robert,
len can never exceed size which is passed in as the
size of the string.  Therefor the NULL will always
land inside the string.
How exactly does snprintf() fail?

Adam

<quote who="Robert Watson">
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=32072
>
> Change 32072 by rwatson at rwatson_tislabs on
> 2003/05/29 16:14:02
>
> 	Temporary work-around for overflows in
> externalization of
> 	compartment strings in the Biba and MLS policies.
> Validate
> 	that the nul we slap down in fact lands inside the
> string.
> 	This code generally needs cleaning up, since it
> fails to
> 	handle failures by snprintf().  If the provided
> string is
> 	too short, this result is preferable to kernel
> panics, etc.
>
> Affected files ...
>
> ..
> //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/sys/security/mac_biba/mac_biba.c#209
> edit ..
> //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/sys/security/mac_mls/mac_mls.c#167
> edit
>
> Differences ...
>
> ====
> //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/sys/security/mac_biba/mac_biba.c#209
> (text+ko) ====
>
> @@ -583,7 +583,11 @@
>  		} while(bit <= MAC_BIBA_MAX_COMPARTMENTS);
>
>  		len = size - left - 1;
> -		string[len] = '\0';
> +		if (len > 0 && len < size)
> +			string[len] = '\0';
> +		else
> +			string[0] = '\0';
> +
>  		return (len);
>
>  	default:
>
> ====
> //depot/projects/trustedbsd/mac/sys/security/mac_mls/mac_mls.c#167
> (text+ko) ====
>
> @@ -547,7 +547,10 @@
>  		} while(bit <= MAC_MLS_MAX_COMPARTMENTS);
>
>  		len = size - left - 1;
> -		string[len] = '\0';
> +		if (len > 0 && len < size)
> +			string[len] = '\0';
> +		else
> +			string[0] = '\0';
>  		return (len);
>
>  	default:


-- 
Adam Migus - Research Scientist
Network Associates Laboratories (http://www.nailabs.com)
FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org)
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