[PATCH 1/2] compositor-drm: Ensure strings from EDID blobs are null terminated
Bryce Harrington
bryce at osg.samsung.com
Fri Aug 28 13:04:26 PDT 2015
strncpy only adds null terminating bytes if the source string is smaller
than the destination string. Since this function relies on the string
being null terminated when checking its contents, we better make sure
there is at least a \0 as the last character.
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>
---
src/compositor-drm.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/compositor-drm.c b/src/compositor-drm.c
index f5f125a..70a3729 100644
--- a/src/compositor-drm.c
+++ b/src/compositor-drm.c
@@ -1933,6 +1933,9 @@ edid_parse_string(const uint8_t *data, char text[])
* terminated or not junk. */
strncpy(text, (const char *) data, 12);
+ /* guarantee our new string is null-terminated */
+ text[12] = '\0';
+
/* remove insane chars */
for (i = 0; text[i] != '\0'; i++) {
if (text[i] == '\n' ||
--
1.9.1
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