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authorDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2019-11-24 22:31:34 -0400
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2019-11-27 07:58:09 -0400
commit8e2251484214d39bdb4872216239bd38eb7729ab (patch)
tree8b0816b68ecee50b0b8e1469d4f92f9430280bfa
parent2a003f0f503b1e7a15b01664cf8217a4762d95cc (diff)
lib: fix memory error in notmuch_config_list_value
The documentation for notmuch_config_list_key warns that that the returned value will be destroyed by the next call to notmuch_config_list_key, but it neglected to mention that calling notmuch_config_list_value would also destroy it (by calling notmuch_config_list_key). This is surprising, and caused a use after free bug in _setup_user_query_fields (first noticed by an OpenBSD porter, so kudos to the OpenBSD malloc implementation). This change fixes that use-after-free bug.
-rw-r--r--lib/config.cc9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/config.cc b/lib/config.cc
index da71c16e..a8bcdf83 100644
--- a/lib/config.cc
+++ b/lib/config.cc
@@ -150,13 +150,17 @@ notmuch_config_list_valid (notmuch_config_list_t *metadata)
return true;
}
+static inline char * _key_from_iterator (notmuch_config_list_t *list) {
+ return talloc_strdup (list, (*list->iterator).c_str () + CONFIG_PREFIX.length ());
+}
+
const char *
notmuch_config_list_key (notmuch_config_list_t *list)
{
if (list->current_key)
talloc_free (list->current_key);
- list->current_key = talloc_strdup (list, (*list->iterator).c_str () + CONFIG_PREFIX.length ());
+ list->current_key = _key_from_iterator (list);
return list->current_key;
}
@@ -166,7 +170,7 @@ notmuch_config_list_value (notmuch_config_list_t *list)
{
std::string strval;
notmuch_status_t status;
- const char *key = notmuch_config_list_key (list);
+ char *key = _key_from_iterator (list);
/* TODO: better error reporting?? */
status = _metadata_value (list->notmuch, key, strval);
@@ -177,6 +181,7 @@ notmuch_config_list_value (notmuch_config_list_t *list)
talloc_free (list->current_val);
list->current_val = talloc_strdup (list, strval.c_str ());
+ talloc_free (key);
return list->current_val;
}