[S] Change in openvpn[master]: mingw: avoid C99 "hh" scanf length modifier

"cron2 \(Code Review\) via Openvpn-devel" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:43:51 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.devel
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Change subject: mingw: avoid C99 "hh" scanf length modifier
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mingw: avoid C99 "hh" scanf length modifier

read_key_file() and parse_hexstring() parse hex bytes with sscanf()
using the C99 "hh" length modifier, storing directly into an octet.

This is not portable to the legacy MSVCRT runtime that Ubuntu
resolute's (26.04) mingw toolchain links against.

Scan into an unsigned int and cast to the octet instead. The field width
caps the value at 0xFF, so the narrowing cast cannot lose data.

Change-Id: I6595695ab6401047d498d530f8739686880bea3a
Signed-off-by: Heiko Hund <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1733
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg37544.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <[email protected]>
---
M src/openvpn/crypto.c
M src/openvpn/cryptoapi.c
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)




diff --git a/src/openvpn/crypto.c b/src/openvpn/crypto.c
index 3d79fe5..ee43d65 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/crypto.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/crypto.c
@@ -1473,9 +1473,9 @@
                     hex_byte[hb_index++] = c;
                     if (hb_index == 2)
                     {
-                        uint8_t u;
-                        ASSERT(sscanf((const char *)hex_byte, "%" SCNx8, &u) == 1);
-                        *out++ = u;
+                        unsigned int u;
+                        ASSERT(sscanf((const char *)hex_byte, "%2x", &u) == 1);
+                        *out++ = (uint8_t)u;
                         hb_index = 0;
                         if (++count == keylen)
                         {
diff --git a/src/openvpn/cryptoapi.c b/src/openvpn/cryptoapi.c
index bf80bbd..0f95ab7 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/cryptoapi.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/cryptoapi.c
@@ -169,10 +169,12 @@
             break;
         }
 
-        if (!isxdigit(p[0]) || !isxdigit(p[1]) || sscanf(p, "%2hhx", &arr[i++]) != 1)
+        unsigned int b;
+        if (!isxdigit(p[0]) || !isxdigit(p[1]) || sscanf(p, "%2x", &b) != 1)
         {
             return 0;
         }
+        arr[i++] = (unsigned char)b;
     }
     return i;
 }

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Gerrit-Project: openvpn
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-Change-Id: I6595695ab6401047d498d530f8739686880bea3a
Gerrit-Change-Number: 1733
Gerrit-PatchSet: 3
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