[PATCH] CVE-2014-0172 Check for overflow before calling malloc to uncompress data.

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Wed Apr 9 21:10:47 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 17:07 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 01:57 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
> > +	    /* Check for unsigned overflow so malloc always allocated
> > +	       enough memory for both the Elf_Data header and the
> > +	       uncompressed section data.  */
> > +	    if (unlikely (sizeof (Elf_Data) + size < size))
> > +	      break;
> > +
> 
> Looks good to me.

Thanks for checking. I pushed it to master now.




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