[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1637447] Re: VNC/RFB: QEMU reports incorrect name (length)

[Jakob van Kruijssen]

** Description changed:

  If the name of a machine (as set with the -name argument) has a length
  longer than 1024, (RFB) VNC clients will not receive a correct RFB
  ServerInit message.
  
  I suspect this is the problem:
  
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/ui/vnc.c#L2463
+ https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/v2.7.0-rc5/ui/vnc.c#L2459
  
  The return value of snprintf is used as the value for the name-length field 
in the ServerInit message.
  This is problematic for names that were truncated to 1024, as the length will 
now be bigger than the actual name.
  
  I think a quick fix would be to simply report min(size,1024) to the
  client...

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Title:
  VNC/RFB: QEMU reports incorrect name (length)

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  If the name of a machine (as set with the -name argument) has a length
  longer than 1024, (RFB) VNC clients will not receive a correct RFB
  ServerInit message.

  I suspect this is the problem:

  https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/v2.7.0-rc5/ui/vnc.c#L2459

  The return value of snprintf is used as the value for the name-length field 
in the ServerInit message.
  This is problematic for names that were truncated to 1024, as the length will 
now be bigger than the actual name.

  I think a quick fix would be to simply report min(size,1024) to the
  client...

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