[syslinux:master] gfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs

syslinux-bot for Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 20 13:42:36 PDT 2010


Commit-ID:  778fcea7d4e3e2a595df0a18475d83d008216117
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/778fcea7d4e3e2a595df0a18475d83d008216117
Author:     Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:23:02 +0200
Committer:  Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de>
CommitDate: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:25:38 +0200

gfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs

If the file size wasn't a multiple of 64KB, we could overwrite the next
entry in the malloc arena so reading the initramfs would fail.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de>


---
 com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c b/com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c
index 3b09e74..2323f8e 100644
--- a/com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c
+++ b/com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <minmax.h>
 
 #include <syslinux/loadfile.h>
 #include <syslinux/config.h>
@@ -770,7 +771,7 @@ void *load_one(char *file, ssize_t *file_size)
   if(size) {
     buf = malloc(size);
     for(i = 1, cur = 0 ; cur < size && i > 0; cur += i) {
-      i = save_read(fd, buf + cur, CHUNK_SIZE);
+      i = save_read(fd, buf + cur, min(CHUNK_SIZE, size - cur));
       if(i == -1) break;
       gfx_progress_update(i);
     }



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