Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] ui/vnc: Fix problem with sending too many bytes as server name

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mo, 2016-11-21 at 18:25 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> If the buffer is not big enough, snprintf() does not return the number
> of bytes that have been written to the buffer, but the number of bytes
> that would be needed for writing the whole string. By using this value
> for the following vnc_write() calls, we send some junk at the end of
> the name in case the qemu_name is longer than 1017 bytes, which could
> confuse the VNC clients. Fix this by adding an additional size check
> here.

Added to ui queue.

thanks,
  Gerd