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[PATCH] dns_resolver: assure that dns_query() result is null-terminated

From: Manuel Schölling <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-07 17:57:03
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

dns_query() credulously assumes that keys are null-terminated and
returns a copy of a memory block that is off by one.
---
 net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index e7b6d53..53be635 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
 	if (!*_result)
 		goto put;
 
-	memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len + 1);
+	memcpy(*_result, upayload->data, len);
+	*_result[len+1] = '\0';
+
 	if (_expiry)
 		*_expiry = rkey->expiry;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4
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