Re: Some question about CVE-2019-3823

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, 鲁猫 via curl-library wrote:

> Hello, I know the root cause about CVE-2019-3823[1] is strtol() call reads 
> beyond the allocated buffer[3]. So I think the root cause statement should 
> be the line 211: "*resp = curlx_sltosi(strtol(line, NULL, 10));". But the 
> website tell me the Vulnerability introduce commit is 2766262a68[2]. In that 
> commit, 'len == 5' is introduced, but I think it is not the Vulnerability 
> introduce commit. The commit 5db0a412ff[4] is the introduced commit of 
> function call 'strtol'.

I disagree. You need to read the logic around the strtol() code: the problem 
was introduced by the additional (bad) logic in 2766262a68. Before that 
change, the strtol() call was fine.

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