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Memory access bug in XMLString2Perl()

           Summary: Memory access bug in XMLString2Perl()
           Product: Xerces-P
           Version: 2.3.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Perl API
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]


Steps to reproduce:
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1) Used gcc compilation flags "-O0 -ggdb3" in building Xerces-Perl and hence
line number is displayed in the error message of valgrind. 

2) Write the following script named "parse.pl"

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use XML::Xerces;

my $xmlString = '<?xml version="1.0"?><A><B>Hello</B></A>';

my $parser = XML::Xerces::XercesDOMParser->new();
$parser->parse(XML::Xerces::MemBufInputSource->new($xmlString));

my $doc = $parser->getDocument();

my $root = $doc->getDocumentElement;
print $root->getAttribute("notExist");
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3) Run it with valgrind

$ valgrind ./parse.pl

valgrind detected invalid memory access like:

==24771== Invalid write of size 1
==24771==    at 0x42F06DEA: XMLString2Perl(unsigned short const*)
(Xerces.cpp:1004)
==24771==    by 0x4306E53B: _wrap_DOMElement_getAttribute
(Xerces.cpp:59286)
==24771==    by 0x402ACCD5: Perl_pp_entersub (in
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so)
==24771==    by 0x402A62E8: Perl_runops_standard (in
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so)
==24771==    Address 0x418CD8FC is 0 bytes after a block of size 0 alloc'd
==24771==    at 0x40026268: __builtin_vec_new (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgskin_memcheck.so)
==24771==    by 0x400262C0: operator new[](unsigned) (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgskin_memcheck.so)
==24771==    by 0x42F06DAE: XMLString2Perl(unsigned short const*)
(Xerces.cpp:995)
==24771==    by 0x4306E53B: _wrap_DOMElement_getAttribute
(Xerces.cpp:59286)

Possible cause:
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It seems that

in line 995 of Xerces.cpp:

SV*
XMLString2Perl(const XMLCh* input) {
    SV *output;
  unsigned int charsEaten = 0;
  int length  = XMLString::stringLen(input);      // string length

  XMLByte* res = new XMLByte[length * UTF8_MAXLEN];
     // output string

  unsigned int total_chars =
    UTF8_TRANSCODER->transcodeTo((const XMLCh*) input,
                   (unsigned int) length,
                   (XMLByte*) res,
                   (unsigned int) length*UTF8_MAXLEN,
                   charsEaten,
                   XMLTranscoder::UnRep_Throw
                   );
  res[total_chars] = '\0';

The memory to malloc should be (length * UTF8_MAXLEN + 1):

  XMLByte* res = new XMLByte[length * UTF8_MAXLEN + 1];          // output

so that the memory for the ending '\0' is not missed.