Hi,
Pete Batard wrote:
strncpy(cpy_result, p_psz_out, i_inlen);
Known as nitpicker i want to to point out that this would avoid a memory
corruption in case of overflow but would also truncate the name,
potentially to an incomplete UTF-8 byte sequence at the end.
I add the technical part of my private mail to Rocky of yesterday with
assessment and proposal which is in part combinable with Pete's.
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My assessment for now:
The strcpy() gesture in function _iso9660_recname_to_cstring() is part
of the conversion from UCS-2 to UTF-8.
I don't see the need for strncpy(), because the result of
cdio_charset_to_utf8() seems to be 0-terminated. (At least it does not
reply a length which would be needed if no terminating 0 is appended.)
But the memory safety depends on the caller having allocated cpy_result
with a sufficient size.
And there i see a potential problem with some languages.
The allocation of cpy_result happens in _iso9660_dir_to_statbuf(),
line 858 ff.:
if (!dir_len) return NULL;
i_fname = from_711(p_iso9660_dir->filename.len);
/* .. string in statbuf is one longer than in p_iso9660_dir's listing '\1' */
stat_len = sizeof(iso9660_stat_t) + i_fname + 2;
/* Reuse multiextent p_stat if not NULL */
if (!p_stat) {
p_stat = calloc(1, stat_len);
first_extent = true;
The size of p_stat->filename is then (i_fname + 2), i.e. what is needed
for the UCS-2 representation of the name plus trailing 16-bit 0.
p_stat->filename becomes parameter cpy_result:
Line 956:
if (!_iso9660_recname_to_cstring(&p_iso9660_dir->filename.str[1],
i_inlen, NULL, p_stat->filename,
u_joliet_level))
Line 965:
if (!_iso9660_recname_to_cstring(&p_iso9660_dir->filename.str[1],
i_inlen, NULL, p_stat->filename,
u_joliet_level))
Normally text shrinks during the conversion from UCS-2 to UTF-8. But
there are UCS-2/UTF-16 characters which need more than 2 bytes. E.g.:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0800
Samaritan Letter Alaf
UTF-8 Encoding: 0xE0 0xA0 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding: 0x0800
So if the UCS-2 name contains more than one of these UTF-8 3-byters the
surplus space for the 16-bit 0 can be used up and the cpy_result can
overflow, regardless of strcpy() versus strncpy().
(Each 1-byte UTF-8 character in the conversion result adds another byte
of room for 3-byters. But i doubt that a string with samaritan letters
will contain many letters from 7-bit US-ASCII.)
It looks like UTF-8 4-byters are not possible in UCS-2.
If we encounter UTF-16 instead, the Joliet characters which yield 4-byte
UTF-8 bytes are 4-byters themselves. (Conversion might yield poor results
if really UCS-2 is expected. But memory should be safe.)
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Proposal in addition to Pete's:
In case of HAVE_JOLIET and u_joliet_level allocate in
_iso9660_dir_to_statbuf()
3/2 of the UCS-2 name length (i_fname of a good UCS-2 string is divisibe
by 2):
stat_len = sizeof(iso9660_stat_t) + 3 * i_fname / 2 + 2;
Rather an alternative to Pete's proposal:
Further i propose to add a parameter
size_t cpy_result_size
to
_iso9660_recname_to_cstring()
and to feed it with (3 * i_fname / 2 + 2) from _iso9660_dir_to_statbuf().
In case of overflow, a message about programming error should be emitted.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas