frederik
/
xserver
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

xfree86: fix possible buffer overflow in xf86PrintBanner() 

There's chance of buffer overflow happending due lack of zero-termination
of printed string. Making sure the buffer is always propertly terminated.

See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1821

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
This commit is contained in:
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult 2025-06-03 19:11:21 +02:00
parent d10204372b
commit 1e4faee4e5
1 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

7
hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c
View File

@ -168,15 +168,14 @@ xf86PrintBanner(void)
name.version, name.machine);
#ifdef __linux__
do {
char buf[80];
int fd = open("/proc/cmdline", O_RDONLY);
if (fd != -1) {
char buf[82] = { 0 };
xf86ErrorFVerb(0, "Kernel command line: ");
memset(buf, 0, 80);
while (read(fd, buf, 80) > 0) {
while (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-2) > 0) {
xf86ErrorFVerb(0, "%.80s", buf);
memset(buf, 0, 80);
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
}
close(fd);
}