[PATCH libXi] Allocate enough memory for raw events + extra data.

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon May 2 20:50:28 PDT 2011


Necessary space was calculated, but not actually used to allocate memory. As
a result, valuator data would overwrite the allocated memory.

==4166== Invalid write of size 1
==4166==    at 0x4C29F04: memcpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:497)
==4166==    by 0x8F39180: ??? (in /usr/lib/libXi.so.6.1.0)
==4166==    by 0x7433D48: _XCopyEventCookie (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
==4166==    by 0x7425166: XPeekEvent (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
==4166==    by 0x49C3E3: process_key (x11_be.c:1065)
==4166==    by 0x49EA5C: event_key_release (x11_be.c:2201)
==4166==    by 0x49DD6E: x11_be_process_events (x11_be.c:1892)
==4166==    by 0x4A38F4: x11_be_main_loop (x11_be.c:4353)
==4166==    by 0x4A39E1: x11_be_thread_main (x11_be.c:4385)
==4166==    by 0x87549C9: start_thread (pthread_create.c:300)
==4166==    by 0x8A516FC: clone (clone.S:112)
==4166==  Address 0x168afe80 is 0 bytes after a block of size 96 alloc'd
==4166==    at 0x4C284A8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==4166==    by 0x8F390BD: ??? (in /usr/lib/libXi.so.6.1.0)
==4166==    by 0x7433D48: _XCopyEventCookie (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
==4166==    by 0x7425166: XPeekEvent (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
==4166==    by 0x49C3E3: process_key (x11_be.c:1065)
==4166==    by 0x49EA5C: event_key_release (x11_be.c:2201)
==4166==    by 0x49DD6E: x11_be_process_events (x11_be.c:1892)
==4166==    by 0x4A38F4: x11_be_main_loop (x11_be.c:4353)
==4166==    by 0x4A39E1: x11_be_thread_main (x11_be.c:4385)
==4166==    by 0x87549C9: start_thread (pthread_create.c:300)

Reported-by: Roger Cruz <roger.cruz at virtualcomputer.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
Sorry, was away for a number of days and only got to this now. You're right,
it's a bug, copy/paste I guess.

 src/XExtInt.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/XExtInt.c b/src/XExtInt.c
index d1451cc..134ccc6 100644
--- a/src/XExtInt.c
+++ b/src/XExtInt.c
@@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ copyRawEvent(XGenericEventCookie *cookie_in,
     len = sizeof(XIRawEvent) + in->valuators.mask_len;
     len += bits * sizeof(double) * 2;
 
-    ptr = cookie_out->data = malloc(sizeof(XIRawEvent));
+    ptr = cookie_out->data = malloc(len);
     if (!ptr)
         return False;
 
-- 
1.7.4.4


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