Qualys Security Advisory 0bc48f7af7 0073-proc/readproc.c: Harden file2str().
1/ Replace sprintf() with snprintf() (and check for truncation).

2/ Prevent an integer overflow of ub->siz. The "tot_read--" is needed to
avoid an off-by-one overflow in "ub->buf[tot_read] = '\0'". It is safe
to decrement tot_read here, because we know that tot_read is equal to
ub->siz (and ub->siz is very large).

We believe that truncation is a better option than failure (implementing
failure instead should be as easy as replacing the "tot_read--" with
"tot_read = 0").

---------------------------- adapted for newlib branch
. no real changes, patch refused due to mem alloc & failure return

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-06-09 21:35:19 +10:00
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