[Slirp] translate_dnssearch BUG
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sat Jun 11 20:28:32 UTC 2022
Hello,
Michael T, le jeu. 06 janv. 2022 16:49:52 +0200, a ecrit:
> In this part of code in translate_dnssearch;
>
>
> for (i = 0; i < num_domains; i++) {
> domains[i].labels = outptr;
> domain_mklabels(domains + i, names[i]);
> outptr += domains[i].len;
> }
>
> if (outptr == result) {
> g_free(domains);
> g_free(result);
> return -1;
> }
>
>
>
> If we have 2 domains where the second one ends with "..", the string is not
> null terminated thus it may cause memory corruption issues in later usage of
> this heap allocated string.
> I was not able to dive really deep into the issue since it was not in the scope
> of my research.
> Note that we need 2 domains so we can bypass the later check and not return.
Indeed. We could just check for domains[i].len being 0 within the loop
instead of just checking the end result. That'd however mean rejecting
all the search names whenever one of them is faulty, does it sound
right?
Samuel
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