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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-04-26 10:06:33 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-04-26 10:06:33 +0300
commit7ece6d40142cad22fe342ae522e24c9b8b5e75a3 (patch)
treee3d5ea90a5e58c3a444caa5ed27247b0e0d6dd2a /nt
parent0507406b6ca75c4366dd16855123e8fc9b012c6b (diff)
downloademacs-7ece6d40142cad22fe342ae522e24c9b8b5e75a3.tar.gz
Fix bug #17334 with overrunning string bounds when PATH is broken.
nt/cmdproxy.c (make_absolute): Don't copy more characters from PATH than a single directory name can hold.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt')
-rw-r--r--nt/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--nt/cmdproxy.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 97d42701c3c..299879ccba8 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-04-26 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * cmdproxy.c (make_absolute): Don't copy more characters from PATH
+ than a single directory name can hold. (Bug#17334)
+
2014-04-21 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* inc/ms-w32.h (lseek): Define only if not already a macro.
diff --git a/nt/cmdproxy.c b/nt/cmdproxy.c
index f3433f63684..e48ca63a257 100644
--- a/nt/cmdproxy.c
+++ b/nt/cmdproxy.c
@@ -292,11 +292,15 @@ make_absolute (const char *prog)
while (*path)
{
+ size_t len;
+
/* Get next directory from path. */
p = path;
while (*p && *p != ';') p++;
- strncpy (dir, path, p - path);
- dir[p - path] = '\0';
+ /* A broken PATH could have too long directory names in it. */
+ len = min (p - path, sizeof (dir) - 1);
+ strncpy (dir, path, len);
+ dir[len] = '\0';
/* Search the directory for the program. */
if (search_dir (dir, prog, MAX_PATH, absname) > 0)