Re: Missing Sanity Checks for malloc()/strdup() in Snort 2.9.8.0 beta

"Costas Kleopa (ckleopa)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.snort.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you for your suggestion. We will add this to our fixes.

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
>     In reviewing source code in Snort-2.9.8.0 beta, I found a call to
> malloc() and strdup() in directory 'snort-2.9.8.0_beta/src/dynamic-preprocessors/appid',
> file 'appIdConfig.c' which are not checked for a return value of NULL
> indicating failure.  The patch file below should address this issue:
> 
> --- appIdConfig.c.orig  2015-09-01 13:42:18.695000000 -0700
> +++ appIdConfig.c       2015-09-01 13:44:21.083000000 -0700
> @@ -237,7 +237,16 @@
>      tAppidGenericConfigItem *pConfigItem;
>  
>      pConfigItem = malloc(sizeof(*pConfigItem));
> +    if (!pConfigItem) {
> +       _dpd.errMsg("Failed to allocate memory for pConfigItem...");
> +       return;
> +    }
>      pConfigItem->name = strdup(name);
> +    if (!pConfigItem->name) {
> +       _dpd.errMsg("Failed to allocate memory for pConfigItem->name...");
> +       free(pConfigItem);
> +       return;
> +    }
>      pConfigItem->pData = pData;
>      sflist_add_tail(&pConfig->genericConfigList, pConfigItem);
>  }
>  
>  I am attaching the patch file to this bug report...m00000!
>  
>  Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Complaints? :)
>  
>  Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
> <appIdConfig.c.patch>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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