The SECURE_ESCAPE_ARGS() macro solves several potential problems
(although we found no problematic calls to the escape*() functions in
procps's code-base, but had to thoroughly review every call; and this is
library code):
1/ off-by-one overflows if the size of the destination buffer is 0;
2/ buffer overflows if this size (or "maxroom") is negative;
3/ integer overflows (for example, "*maxcells+1");
4/ always null-terminate the destination buffer (unless its size is 0).
---------------------------- adapted for newlib branch
. the escape.c now has just a single exported function
. thus SECURE_ESCAPE_ARGS() is needed in only 2 places
. unlike that original patch, macro is executed 1 time
( not like 'escape_command' calling 'escape_strlist' )
( which might then call 'escape_str' multiple times! )
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Qualys Security Advisory
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