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authorJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2016-03-07 01:32:08 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2016-03-07 01:41:39 +0100
commitf99b06213e39c3e2d46db243d2509c42cc63c752 (patch)
tree5cbd37e26cb3bdd192b7c61162522f0a7070d1f9 /apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
parent8d89cda7d66b6f125c457f36beeb84abb0df07f1 (diff)
apt-pkg/algorithms.cc: Avoid stack buffer overflow in KillList
Dynamically allocate KillList in order to avoid an overflow when more than 100 elements would be written to it. This happened while playing around with the status file from Bug#701069 on a modern system.
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg/algorithms.cc')
-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/algorithms.cc19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc b/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
index 4b84b8324..ee4787b38 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
changing a breaks c) */
bool Change = true;
bool const TryFixByInstall = _config->FindB("pkgProblemResolver::FixByInstall", true);
+ std::vector<PackageKill> KillList;
for (int Counter = 0; Counter != 10 && Change == true; Counter++)
{
Change = false;
@@ -767,12 +768,12 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
clog << "Investigating (" << Counter << ") " << I << endl;
// Isolate the problem dependency
- PackageKill KillList[100];
- PackageKill *LEnd = KillList;
bool InOr = false;
pkgCache::DepIterator Start;
pkgCache::DepIterator End;
- PackageKill *OldEnd = LEnd;
+ size_t OldSize = 0;
+
+ KillList.resize(0);
enum {OrRemove,OrKeep} OrOp = OrRemove;
for (pkgCache::DepIterator D = Cache[I].InstVerIter(Cache).DependsList();
@@ -782,7 +783,7 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
if (Start == End)
{
// Decide what to do
- if (InOr == true && OldEnd == LEnd)
+ if (InOr == true && OldSize == KillList.size())
{
if (OrOp == OrRemove)
{
@@ -816,7 +817,7 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
continue;
InOr = Start != End;
- OldEnd = LEnd;
+ OldSize = KillList.size();
}
else
{
@@ -979,10 +980,8 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
if (Debug == true)
clog << " Added " << Pkg.FullName(false) << " to the remove list" << endl;
-
- LEnd->Pkg = Pkg;
- LEnd->Dep = End;
- LEnd++;
+
+ KillList.push_back({Pkg, End});
if (Start.IsNegative() == false)
break;
@@ -1032,7 +1031,7 @@ bool pkgProblemResolver::ResolveInternal(bool const BrokenFix)
// Apply the kill list now
if (Cache[I].InstallVer != 0)
{
- for (PackageKill *J = KillList; J != LEnd; J++)
+ for (auto J = KillList.begin(); J != KillList.end(); J++)
{
Change = true;
if ((Cache[J->Dep] & pkgDepCache::DepGNow) == 0)