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Bug 474366 - buffer overflow in ir_fetch_seq()
buffer overflow in ir_fetch_seq()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: balsa
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.3.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Balsa Maintainers
Balsa Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-06 21:08 UTC by Evil Ninja Squirrel
Modified: 2007-09-07 21:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Patch against SVN trunk (588 bytes, patch)
2007-09-06 21:10 UTC, Evil Ninja Squirrel 		none Details | Review

Description Evil Ninja Squirrel 2007-09-06 21:08:47 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
I've found a buffer overflow in ir_fetch_seq(). It continues to read and read more data without checking if it starts writing outside of a char array.

Stack trace:


Other information:
Comment 1 Evil Ninja Squirrel 2007-09-06 21:10:06 UTC 
Created attachment 95088 [details] [review]
Patch against SVN trunk
Comment 2 Pawel Salek 2007-09-07 21:31:33 UTC 
Thanks a lot for spotting this. The patch has been commited, and balsa-2.3.20 released.