Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Dimension the buffer based on PATH_MAX rather than a magic number, and
> verify that the path fits in it before continuing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu>
> ---
>
> I don't think that this problem is remotely exploitable, because the
> size of the string doesn't depend on inputs that can be influenced by
> a client (at least not within Git).
This is shrinking the buffer on some platforms where PATH_MAX is
lower than 4k---granted, we will die() with the new check instead of
crashing uncontrolled, but it still feels somewhat wrong.
> builtin/prune.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/prune.c b/builtin/prune.c
> index 6366917..ae34d04 100644
> --- a/builtin/prune.c
> +++ b/builtin/prune.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ static void prune_object_dir(const char *path)
> {
> int i;
> for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
> - static char dir[4096];
> + static char dir[PATH_MAX + 1];
> + if (strlen(path) + 3 > PATH_MAX)
> + die("impossible object directory");
> sprintf(dir, "%s/%02x", path, i);
> prune_dir(i, dir);
> }
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