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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2013-05-22 14:50:26 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2013-05-22 14:50:26 -0400
commit7a44c18fb4b1a65ebb1fece0b0d04f2570ed4d82 (patch)
treea6d12bc38f6df81be682c581c525653c883ed2f7 /NEWS
parentb50a71810bbd35b8c83ba6eff4e6cc6faf93a7ea (diff)
Fix _nl_find_msg malloc failure case, and callers.
This patch fixes two issues, and perhaps should be two distinct commits, but I present it here as one for the sake of completeness. Commit 006dd86111c44572dbd3b26e9c63dd0f834d7762 fails to check malloc's return in intl/dcigettext.c (_nl_find_msg): ~~~ freemem_size = INITIAL_BLOCK_SIZE; newmem = (transmem_block_t *) malloc (freemem_size); ... newmem->next = transmem_list; transmem_list = newmem; ~~~ If malloc fails then newmem is NULL then newmem->next results in a fault. The fix is easy enough, check for newmem != NULL, and fall through to the error condition below which returns (char *) -1 e.g. resource error. The problem is that returning (char *) -1 will break all sorts of other code, so while what we did is correct, the real failure case fix is slightly broader. There are 4 other places where _nl_find_msg is called, one is OK, the other three are fixed to handle -1 error return value. No regressions on x86-64 or x86. However, no regressions isn't really a useful metric for this code. The change was tested as documented here: http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/WhiteBox using SystemTap for fault injection to simulate malloc failure. --- 2013-05-03 Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat.com> [BZ #15441] * intl/dcigettext.c (DCIGETTEXT): Skip translating if _nl_find_msg returns -1. (_nl_find_msg): Return -1 if recursive call returned -1. If newmem is null return -1. * intl/loadmsgcat.c (_nl_load_domain): If _nl_find_msg returns -1 abort loading the domain.
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@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ Version 2.18
15085, 15086, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234, 15283, 15285, 15287,
15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335, 15336, 15337, 15339,
15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406,
- 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424, 15426, 15429, 15442, 15448,
- 15480, 15485, 15488, 15490, 15493, 15497, 15506.
+ 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424, 15426, 15429, 15441, 15442,
+ 15448, 15480, 15485, 15488, 15490, 15493, 15497, 15506.
* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
#15078).