File 0001-CVE-2012-4562-Fix-possible-integer-overflow-in-ssh_g.patch of Package libssh
From 8489521c0d7a9d1336b23a4a64e5df2d0f3ba57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:02:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] CVE-2012-4562: Fix possible integer overflow in
ssh_get_hexa().
No exploit known, but it is better to check the string length.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>
---
src/dh.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/dh.c b/src/dh.c
index ec291d3..9b9d203 100644
--- a/libssh/dh.c
+++ b/libssh/dh.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <limits.h>
#ifndef _WIN32
#include <netinet/in.h>
@@ -194,6 +195,9 @@ char *ssh_get_hexa(const unsigned char *what, size_t len) {
char *hexa = NULL;
size_t i;
+ if (len > (UINT_MAX - 1) / 3)
+ return NULL;
+
hexa = malloc(len * 3 + 1);
if (hexa == NULL) {
return NULL;
--
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