Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:48:12 +0000 | Subject | [PATCH 7/7] netfilter: xtables: refactor deprecated strncpy | From | Justin Stitt <> |
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Prefer `strscpy` as it's a more robust interface.
There may have existed a bug here due to both `tbl->repl.name` and `info->name` having a size of 32 as defined below: | #define XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32
This may lead to buffer overreads in some situations -- `strscpy` solves this by guaranteeing NUL-termination of the dest buffer.
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
--- Note: build tested only --- net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h index 68ccbe50bb1e..63869fd0ec57 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if (tbl == NULL) \ return NULL; \ term = (struct type##_error *)&(((char *)tbl)[term_offset]); \ - strncpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \ + strscpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \ *term = (struct type##_error)typ2##_ERROR_INIT; \ tbl->repl.valid_hooks = hook_mask; \ tbl->repl.num_entries = nhooks + 1; \ -- 2.41.0.640.ga95def55d0-goog
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