Bugtraq: Re: GNU Sharutils buffer overflow vulnerability.

["Carlos Eduardo Pinheiro" <cbc99 () bol com br>]

btw.. you´re still overwriting 1 byte after the bounds of output_base_name,
output_base_name[sizeof(output_base_name)-1] = '\0'; will be sane...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Didier Arenzana" <darenzana () yahoo fr>
To: "Shaun Colley" <shaunige () yahoo co uk>; <bugtraq () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: GNU Sharutils buffer overflow vulnerability.


> --- Shaun Colley <shaunige () yahoo co uk> a écrit :
> > Product:      GNU Sharutils -
>   Hello,
>   I've juste read your advisory, and I'd like to advise your patch is
> incomplete:
>
> > [...]
> >        case 'o':
> > -       strcpy (output_base_name, optarg);
> > +       strncpy (output_base_name, optarg,
> > sizeof(output_base_name));
> You must add
>
>      output_base_name[sizeof(output_base_name)]='\0' ;
>
> here, otherwize your string will not be null-termminated when optarg is
too
> long.
>
> Regards,
> Didier.
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