svn commit: r248664 - head/contrib/libarchive/libarchive

Martin Matuska mm at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 23 21:34:11 UTC 2013


Author: mm
Date: Sat Mar 23 21:34:10 2013
New Revision: 248664
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248664

Log:
  Merge bugfix from vendor master branch:
  
  Limit write requests to at most INT_MAX.
  This prevents a certain common programming error (passing -1 to write)
  from leading to other problems deeper in the library.
  
  References:
  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/22531545514043e0
  
  Reported by:	Xin Li <delphij at FreeBSD.org>
  Obtained from:  libarchive (master branch)

Modified:
  head/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write.c

Modified: head/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write.c
==============================================================================
--- head/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write.c	Sat Mar 23 20:46:47 2013	(r248663)
+++ head/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/archive_write.c	Sat Mar 23 21:34:10 2013	(r248664)
@@ -671,8 +671,13 @@ static ssize_t
 _archive_write_data(struct archive *_a, const void *buff, size_t s)
 {
 	struct archive_write *a = (struct archive_write *)_a;
+	const size_t max_write = INT_MAX;
+
 	archive_check_magic(&a->archive, ARCHIVE_WRITE_MAGIC,
 	    ARCHIVE_STATE_DATA, "archive_write_data");
+	/* In particular, this catches attempts to pass negative values. */
+	if (s > max_write)
+		s = max_write;
 	archive_clear_error(&a->archive);
 	return ((a->format_write_data)(a, buff, s));
 }


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