If the link target length exceeds 'sizeof(tmp)' bytes, readlink() will return 'sizeof(tmp)'. Using this value as index is illegal. Original update from Phil, for the conntrack-tools tree, which also has a copy of this function. Fixes: 6d085b22a8b5 ("table: support for the table owner flag") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Same as: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20221220153847.24152-2-phil@xxxxxx/ src/owner.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/owner.c b/src/owner.c index 2d98a2e98028..20bed38b2a09 100644 --- a/src/owner.c +++ b/src/owner.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static char *portid2name(pid_t pid, uint32_t portid, unsigned long inode) continue; rl = readlink(procname, tmp, sizeof(tmp)); - if (rl <= 0 || rl > (ssize_t)sizeof(tmp)) + if (rl <= 0 || rl >= (ssize_t)sizeof(tmp)) continue; tmp[rl] = 0; -- 2.30.2