netdev - [PATCH iproute2] ss: avoid passing negative numbers to malloc

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Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:52:14 +0100
From:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
To:	stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH iproute2] ss: avoid passing negative numbers to malloc

Example:

$ ss state established \( sport = :4060  or sport = :4061 or sport = :4062  or sport = :4063 or sport = :4064  or sport = :4065 or sport = :4066  or sport = :4067 \)  > /dev/null
Aborted

In the example above ssfilter_bytecompile(...) will return (int)136.
char l1 = 136; means -120 which will result in a negative number
being passed to malloc at misc/ss.c:913.

Simply declare l1 and l2 as intergers to avoid the char overflow.

This is one of the issues originally reported in http://bugs.debian.org/511720

Reported-by: Andreas Schuldei <andreas@...ian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
---
 misc/ss.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c
index c0369f1..db3a3a4 100644
--- a/misc/ss.c
+++ b/misc/ss.c
@@ -907,7 +907,8 @@ static int ssfilter_bytecompile(struct ssfilter *f, char **bytecode)
 	}
 		case SSF_OR:
 	{
-		char *a1, *a2, *a, l1, l2;
+		char *a1, *a2, *a;
+		int l1, l2;
 		l1 = ssfilter_bytecompile(f->pred, &a1);
 		l2 = ssfilter_bytecompile(f->post, &a2);
 		if (!(a = malloc(l1+l2+4))) abort();
-- 
1.8.4.3
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