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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:15:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Meadele Mathieu <meadele@nerim.net>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   misc/44379: libutil: property.c, properties_read() bad boundary check
Message-ID:  <200210221115.g9MBFnxn042504@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         44379
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       libutil: property.c, properties_read() bad boundary check
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 22 04:20:09 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Meadele Mathieu
>Release:        4.7-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mach3 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 19 03:14:13 GMT 2002     root@mach3:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACH3  i386     
>Description:
Hi,

There is a bad boundary check in properties_read() when parsing 'name=value'.

I patched property.c and added some corrections:
  - corrected bad boundary check.
  - ignore characters after space unless value is enclosed with brackets.
  - ignore characters after terminating bracket.
  - check for malloc/strdup return value.

The attached path applies on /usr/src/lib/libutil/property.c
>How-To-Repeat:

create a file holding a word longer than PROPERTY_MAX_NAME+1 (65) characters.
>Fix:
I submited a patch.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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