[PATCH v2 1/3] staging: fbtft: Fix buffer overflow vulnerability

Tobin C. Harding me at tobin.cc
Wed Feb 15 03:27:23 UTC 2017


Module copies a user supplied string (module parameter) into a buffer
using strncpy() and does not check that the buffer is null terminated.

Replace call to strncpy() with call to strlcpy() ensuring that the
buffer is null terminated.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me at tobin.cc>
---
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
index de46f8d..7b7223b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ static int __init fbtft_device_init(void)
 			displays[i].pdev->name = name;
 			displays[i].spi = NULL;
 		} else {
-			strncpy(displays[i].spi->modalias, name, SPI_NAME_SIZE);
+			strlcpy(displays[i].spi->modalias, name, SPI_NAME_SIZE);
 			displays[i].pdev = NULL;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.7.4



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