Hi all,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 7:03 PM Angel Pons <th3fan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:43 PM Patrick Georgi <patr...@coreboot.org> wrote:
> >
> > "Angel Pons" <th3fan...@gmail.com> schrieb:
> >
> > > We made the patches that made Coverity angry about this `format_pn()`
> > > function. However, this is not an actual bug: the
> > > `eeprom_read_serial()` function returns a buffer that is at most 32
> > > (`HERMES_SN_PN_LENGTH`) characters long, and the length of the
> > > `prefix` string is known at build-time (it's a string literal in both
> > > call sites) to be less than 32 characters long.
> >
> > There's no guarantee that the string returned by eeprom_read_serial() is 
> > 0-terminated (not even in its implementation) and strcpy proceeds until the 
> > first 0 it sees, even if that's only 2GB later. Use strncpy instead to 
> > prevent out of bound copies.
>
> Oh, we wanted to use `strncat()` but it doesn't exist in coreboot.
> Then we considered `strcat()` and it didn't exist either, and we ended
> up using `strcpy()`. Will use `strncpy()`, thank you!

After some discussion on IRC, we ended up making
https://review.coreboot.org/68322 and
https://review.coreboot.org/68323 to address the issues. Thank you
all.

> > Patrick
>
> Best regards,
> Angel

Best regards,
Angel
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