Buffer overflow in gnutls-serv http code

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sun Dec 5 10:39:09 CET 2010


On 12/02/2010 03:24 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> The gnutls-serv uses fixed allocated buffer for the response which can
> be pretty long if a client certificate is presented to it and the http
> header is large. This causes buffer overflow and heap corruption which
> then leads to random segfaults or aborts.
> 
> It was reported originally here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659259
> 
> The attached patch changes sprintf calls in peer_print_info() to
> snprintf so the buffer is never overflowed.

Thank you. Applied.

regards,
Nikos





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