full-disclosure - Re: dproxy - arbitrary code execution through stack buffer overflow vulnerability

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:14:25 +0100
From: Alexander Klink <a.klink@...ops.de>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: dproxy - arbitrary code execution through
	stack buffer overflow vulnerability

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:54:33PM +0000, mu-b wrote:
> you might want to NULL terminate query_string while your there....
Good point (C is not exactly my native language ...). Actually, it
is not necessary in this case though, because this is done in
the decode_domain_name() function that is executed right below:

> > -  strcpy( query_string, pkt.buf );
> > +  strncpy( query_string, pkt.buf, sizeof(query_string) );
> >    decode_domain_name( query_string );
> >    debug("query: %s\n", query_string );

Granted, I only figured that out after looking why it was working
despite the \0-omission :-)

Regards,
    Alex
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