[syslinux:elflink] extlinux: Avoid dereferencing a garbage pointer
syslinux-bot for Matt Fleming
matt.fleming at intel.com
Mon Nov 5 08:03:11 PST 2012
Commit-ID: 2bc5ea50ca5f670c1101d7986a70adfc5cae8b48
Gitweb: http://www.syslinux.org/commit/2bc5ea50ca5f670c1101d7986a70adfc5cae8b48
Author: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:02:36 +0000
Committer: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:29:58 +0000
extlinux: Avoid dereferencing a garbage pointer
If opt.reset_adv is set the call to ext_read_adv() is skipped which
would have initialised 'filename'. This means that a pointer
containing random data from the stack is passed to ext_write_adv().
Just delete the opt.reset_adv logic since modify_adv() handles that
case anyway.
Reported-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio at citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
---
extlinux/main.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c
index 611b808..9dc8891 100644
--- a/extlinux/main.c
+++ b/extlinux/main.c
@@ -1288,9 +1288,7 @@ int modify_existing_adv(const char *path)
if (devfd < 0)
return 1;
- if (opt.reset_adv)
- syslinux_reset_adv(syslinux_adv);
- else if (ext_read_adv(path, devfd, &filename) < 0) {
+ if (ext_read_adv(path, devfd, &filename) < 0) {
close(devfd);
return 1;
}
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