[Spice-devel] [PATCH] Replace sprintf with snprintf use

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 09:07:49 PDT 2012


The hotkey parser was generating a string with sprintf and data it got
from the controller socket (ie data which can have an arbitrary
length). Using sprintf there is a bad idea, replace it with snprintf.
---
 client/hot_keys.cpp |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/client/hot_keys.cpp b/client/hot_keys.cpp
index f98a4bb..2d0b9db 100644
--- a/client/hot_keys.cpp
+++ b/client/hot_keys.cpp
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ void HotKeysParser::add_hotkey(const std::string& hotkey, const CommandsMap& com
 
     if (commands_map.find(command_name) == commands_map.end()) {
         char buf[1000];
-        sprintf(buf, "invalid action bname %s", command_name.c_str());
+        snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "invalid action bname %s", command_name.c_str());
         THROW(buf);
     }
     int command_id = commands_map.find(command_name)->second;
-- 
1.7.9.3



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