[Pkg-xfce-devel] xfce4-mpc-plugin buffer overflows

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Mon Dec 8 23:33:37 UTC 2008


Hi,

We had a user in Debian who was having problems with the
xfce4-mpc-plugin and a long password.  It turned out that passwords
longer than about 30 characters were causing buffer overflows.

I looked into it and found a few problems.  There are lots of sprintfs
into buffers with strings which contain untrusted input.

I've fixed some in the attached patch against 0.3.3 although I want it
to be reviewed at some point.

I also couldn't see a nice way to return an error message back to the
user and I'm not really a GTK coder in anyway :)

You may well choose to fix these issues in a different way in which case
we'd love to see the patch to get it into Debian.

Anyway, if you have some time to review the patch it'd be great.

Thanks.

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