[PATCH 5/6] alfred: reject too long unix socket paths

Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:31:59 +0200
Newsgroups org.open-mesh.lists.batman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The unix socket path needs to be stored in sockaddr_un::sun_path. But
strncpy() is silently truncating the string when the target buffer is too
small.

Reject such paths with a clear error message.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
---
 unix_sock.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/unix_sock.c b/unix_sock.c
index e6b44da..99c2538 100644
--- a/unix_sock.c
+++ b/unix_sock.c
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ int unix_sock_open_daemon(struct globals *globals)
 	struct sockaddr_un addr;
 	struct epoll_event ev;
 
+	if (strlen(globals->unix_path) >= sizeof(addr.sun_path)) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "unix socket path too long\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	unlink(globals->unix_path);
 
 	globals->unix_sock = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
@@ -76,6 +81,11 @@ int unix_sock_open_client(struct globals *globals)
 {
 	struct sockaddr_un addr;
 
+	if (strlen(globals->unix_path) >= sizeof(addr.sun_path)) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "unix socket path too long\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	globals->unix_sock = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
 	if (globals->unix_sock < 0) {
 		perror("can't create unix socket");

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