Missing sanity checks for various C library function calls...
Bill Parker
wp02855@gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 20:48:00 GMT 2015
Hello All,
In reviewing code for Python-3.4.3 in directory
'Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/arm', file 'ffi.c', I found a pair
of calls to calloc() which do not test for a return value
of NULL, indicating failure. The patch file below corrects
this issue:
--- ffi.c.orig 2015-04-04 15:43:19.662709073 -0700
+++ ffi.c 2015-04-04 15:51:27.142665269 -0700
@@ -629,12 +629,21 @@
/* We have valid trampoline and config pages */
table = calloc (1, sizeof(ffi_trampoline_table));
+ if (table == NULL) { /* oops, calloc() failed, now what??? */
+ fprintf(stderr, "vm calloc() failure: %d at %s:%d\n", kt,
__FILE__, __LINE__);
+ return NULL; /* go home??? */
+ }
table->free_count = FFI_TRAMPOLINE_COUNT;
table->config_page = config_page;
table->trampoline_page = trampoline_page;
/* Create and initialize the free list */
table->free_list_pool = calloc(FFI_TRAMPOLINE_COUNT,
sizeof(ffi_trampoline_table_entry));
+ if (table->free_list_pool == NULL) { /* oops, calloc() failed, now what */
+ fprintf(stderr, "vm calloc() failure: %d at %s:%d\n", kt,
__FILE__, __LINE__);
+ free(table); /* free table (from previos calloc() call) */
+ return NULL; /* go home??? *
+ }
uint16_t i;
for (i = 0; i < table->free_count; i++) {
I am attaching the patch file to this email
Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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