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-rw-r--r-- | changes/buffer_bug | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/or/buffers.c | 5 |
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 f4aac0f0e4..7c49423e16 100644 --- a/src/or/buffers.c +++ b/src/or/buffers.c @@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ 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; |