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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-12-14 16:38:43 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-12-15 11:28:24 -0500
commit9d0777839be6642954a4c064c819d406d8bb7cb4 (patch)
tree6c19e41480bb925c9099180dd1e6c36dc12b0aad
parentff2c9acbb39d7ae917501b1e719cf5be994fe4e2 (diff)
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Add a fix for the buf_pullup bug that Vektor reported
-rw-r--r--changes/buffer_bug7
-rw-r--r--src/or/buffers.c5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/buffer_bug b/changes/buffer_bug
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..634f609533
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/buffer_bug
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+ o Major bugfixes:
+ - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
+ data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
+ already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
+ bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
+
diff --git a/src/or/buffers.c b/src/or/buffers.c
index 710374638b..5701604909 100644
--- a/src/or/buffers.c
+++ b/src/or/buffers.c
@@ -375,9 +375,10 @@ buf_pullup(buf_t *buf, size_t bytes, int nulterminate)
if (buf->head->memlen >= capacity) {
/* We don't need to grow the first chunk, but we might need to repack it.*/
- if (CHUNK_REMAINING_CAPACITY(buf->head) < capacity-buf->datalen)
+ size_t needed = capacity - buf->head->datalen;
+ if (CHUNK_REMAINING_CAPACITY(buf->head) < needed)
chunk_repack(buf->head);
- tor_assert(CHUNK_REMAINING_CAPACITY(buf->head) >= capacity-buf->datalen);
+ tor_assert(CHUNK_REMAINING_CAPACITY(buf->head) >= needed);
} else {
chunk_t *newhead;
size_t newsize;