Re: [spice-common 3/8] coverity: avoid out of bounds access

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:03:34AM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> We are allocating insufficient memory for the terminating null of the
> string.
> ---
>  common/ssl_verify.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/ssl_verify.c b/common/ssl_verify.c
> index 601252e..4292ddf 100644
> --- a/common/ssl_verify.c
> +++ b/common/ssl_verify.c
> @@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ static X509_NAME* subject_to_x509_name(const char *subject, int *nentries)
>      spice_return_val_if_fail(subject != NULL, NULL);
>      spice_return_val_if_fail(nentries != NULL, NULL);
>  
> -    key = (char*)alloca(strlen(subject));
> -    val = (char*)alloca(strlen(subject));
> +    key = (char*)alloca(strlen(subject) + 1);
> +    val = (char*)alloca(strlen(subject) + 1);
>      in_subject = X509_NAME_new();

Can try to write too many chars to the string in practice? We expect the
string to contain a '=', so key/state will be smaller than subject. If
there is no '=' in the string, we don't try to add a '\0' to 'key' (I
did not check the 'val' code path).

Christophe

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