Fix a buffer over-stepping issue triggered by providing an absolute path that is similar to the work tree path. abspath_part_inside_repo() may currently increment the path pointer by offset_1st_component() + wtlen, which is too much, since offset_1st_component() is a subset of wtlen. For the *nix-style prefix '/', this does (by luck) not cause any issues, since offset_1st_component() is 1 and there will always be a '/' or '\0' that can "absorb" this. In the case of DOS-style prefixes though, the offset_1st_component() is 3 and this can potentially over-step the string buffer. For example if work_tree = "c:/r" path = "c:/rl" Then wtlen is 4, and incrementing the path pointer by (3 + 4) would end up 2 bytes outside a string buffer of length 6. Similarly if work_tree = "c:/r" path = "c:/rl/d/a" Then (since the loop starts by also incrementing the pointer one step), this would mean that the function would miss checking if "c:/rl/d" could be the work_tree, arguably this is unlikely though, since it would only be possible with symlinks on windows. Fix this by simply avoiding to increment by offset_1st_component() and wtlen at the same time. Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is a follow-up on 655ee9e mw/symlinks which is currently merged into master, prospective for git v2.0.0, the issue only affects v2.0.0-rc0. setup.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index 613e3b3..0a22f8b 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static int abspath_part_inside_repo(char *path) return -1; wtlen = strlen(work_tree); len = strlen(path); - off = 0; + off = offset_1st_component(path); /* check if work tree is already the prefix */ if (wtlen <= len && !strncmp(path, work_tree, wtlen)) { @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int abspath_part_inside_repo(char *path) off = wtlen; } path0 = path; - path += offset_1st_component(path) + off; + path += off; /* check each '/'-terminated level */ while (*path) { -- 1.9.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html