Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2021-10-08

Re: [PATCH] Fix potential overlap dest buffer

From: Paul Menzel <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-18 06:34:40

Dear Nigel,


Am 17.08.21 um 15:14 schrieb Nigel Croxon:
To meet requirements of Common Criteria certification vulnerablility
vulnerability
assessment.
That’s only part of a sentence? Is that supposed to be read as a continuation of the commit message summary: … to meet requirements …?
Static code analysis has been run and found the following
error.  Overlapping_buffer: The source buffer potentially overlaps
It’d be great, if you denoted, which tool was run. Maybe even add a Found-by tag.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
with the destination buffer, which results in undefined
behavior for "memcpy".

The change is to use memmove instead of memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon <redacted>
---
  sha1.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sha1.c b/sha1.c
index 11be7045..89b32f46 100644
--- a/sha1.c
+++ b/sha1.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ sha1_process_bytes (const void *buffer, size_t len, struct sha1_ctx *ctx)
  	{
  	  sha1_process_block (ctx->buffer, 64, ctx);
  	  left_over -= 64;
-	  memcpy (ctx->buffer, &ctx->buffer[16], left_over);
+	  memmove (ctx->buffer, &ctx->buffer[16], left_over);
  	}
        ctx->buflen = left_over;
      }
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <redacted>


Kind regards,

Paul
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