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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:00:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/23521: NULL pointer write in vfprintf code
Message-ID:  <200012191600.eBJG09M43811@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/23521; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, luddes@hotmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/23521: NULL pointer write in vfprintf code
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:53:44 -0800

 The bug is due to code in __grow_type_table() trashing the stack from
 calling memset() with the wrong address. The patch below should fix the
 problem.
 
 Note: it was interesting that the original vfprintf() code didn't crash
 when compiled with just "-g" but "-g -O" crashed it just fine.
 
 Mark
 
 
 Index: vfprintf.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.22
 diff -u -r1.22 vfprintf.c
 --- vfprintf.c	1999/08/28 00:01:20	1.22
 +++ vfprintf.c	2000/12/18 03:50:48
 @@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@
  		    reallocf (typetable, sizeof (unsigned char) * newsize);
 
  	}
 -	memset (&typetable [*tablesize], T_UNUSED, (newsize - *tablesize));
 +	memset (*typetable + *tablesize, T_UNUSED, (newsize - *tablesize));
 
  	*tablesize = newsize;
  }
 


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