Coverity CID 131256 indicates a possible buffer overflow in label_boot(). This would only occur if the size of the downloaded file would exceed 4 GiB. But anyway we can simplify the code by using snprintf() and checking the return value.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com> --- boot/pxe_utils.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/boot/pxe_utils.c b/boot/pxe_utils.c index a7a84f26c1..5841561bdf 100644 --- a/boot/pxe_utils.c +++ b/boot/pxe_utils.c @@ -465,11 +465,10 @@ static int label_boot(struct pxe_context *ctx, struct pxe_label *label) } initrd_addr_str = env_get("ramdisk_addr_r"); - strcpy(initrd_filesize, simple_xtoa(size)); - - strncpy(initrd_str, initrd_addr_str, 18); - strcat(initrd_str, ":"); - strncat(initrd_str, initrd_filesize, 9); + size = snprintf(initrd_str, sizeof(initrd_str), "%s:%lx", + initrd_addr_str, size); + if (size >= sizeof(initrd_str)) + return 1; } if (get_relfile_envaddr(ctx, label->kernel, "kernel_addr_r", -- 2.32.0