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[PATCH v3 12/28] hw/i386/multiboot: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2()
From: |
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
Subject: |
[PATCH v3 12/28] hw/i386/multiboot: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 19:44:54 +0200 |
Per
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/port-your-module-from-g-memdup-to-g-memdup2-now/5538
The old API took the size of the memory to duplicate as a guint,
whereas most memory functions take memory sizes as a gsize. This
made it easy to accidentally pass a gsize to g_memdup(). For large
values, that would lead to a silent truncation of the size from 64
to 32 bits, and result in a heap area being returned which is
significantly smaller than what the caller expects. This can likely
be exploited in various modules to cause a heap buffer overflow.
Replace g_memdup() by the safer g_memdup2() wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
---
hw/i386/multiboot.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/i386/multiboot.c b/hw/i386/multiboot.c
index 9e7d69d4705..754415d17f3 100644
--- a/hw/i386/multiboot.c
+++ b/hw/i386/multiboot.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ int load_multiboot(FWCfgState *fw_cfg,
mb_debug(" mb_mods_count = %d", mbs.mb_mods_count);
/* save bootinfo off the stack */
- mb_bootinfo_data = g_memdup(bootinfo, sizeof(bootinfo));
+ mb_bootinfo_data = g_memdup2(bootinfo, sizeof(bootinfo));
/* Pass variables to option rom */
fw_cfg_add_i32(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_KERNEL_ENTRY, mh_entry_addr);
--
2.31.1
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- [PATCH v3 23/28] tests/unit: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2(), Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/09/03