review (XS) for 6765546: Wrong sscanf used to parse CompilerOracle command >= 32 characters could lead to crash

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Tue Dec 14 16:55:15 PST 2010


It should be in the RANGEBASE definition (not in one sscanf) which is used in other places also:

-#define RANGEBASE "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789$_<>" \
+#define RANGEBASE "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789$_<>[" \

Vladimir

Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> Sure.  I added that in and tested to make sure array signatures were accepted now.  I've updated the webrev too.  Thanks.
> 
> tom
> 
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Igor Veresov wrote:
> 
>> Looks good!
>>
>> May I also suggest piggybacking that on this change:
>>
>> @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ void CompilerOracle::parse_from_line(cha
>>     line += bytes_read;
>>     // there might be a signature following the method.
>>     // signatures always begin with ( so match that by hand
>> -    if (1 == sscanf(line, "%*[ \t](%254[);/" RANGEBASE "]%n", sig + 1, &bytes_read)) {
>> +    if (1 == sscanf(line, "%*[ \t](%254[[);/" RANGEBASE "]%n", sig + 1, &bytes_read)) {
>>
>> This basically makes it accept signatures with arrays.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> igor
>>
>> On 12/14/10 3:30 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/6765546
>>>
>>> 6765546: Wrong sscanf used to parse CompilerOracle command>= 32 characters could lead to crash
>>> Reviewed-by:
>>>
>>> The buffer for a sscanf isn't long enough to include the null
>>> termination and we're missing a check for unknown commands.  Tested
>>> with various command lines.
> 


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