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authorMax Kellermann <max@duempel.org>2009-07-19 17:38:46 +0200
committerMax Kellermann <max@duempel.org>2009-07-19 17:38:46 +0200
commit0ce727d5d459c2319edc507eb2e71af8a1c9d5dc (patch)
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ape: added protection against large memory allocations
The function tag_ape_load() retrieves a 32 bit unsigned integer from the input file, and passes it to g_malloc(). This is dangerous, and may be used for a denial of service attack on MPD.
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-rw-r--r--src/tag_ape.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/tag_ape.c b/src/tag_ape.c
index ef921141b..7cbf32208 100644
--- a/src/tag_ape.c
+++ b/src/tag_ape.c
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ tag_ape_load(const char *file)
tagLen = GUINT32_FROM_LE(footer.length);
if (tagLen <= sizeof(footer) + 10)
goto fail;
+ if (tagLen > 1024 * 1024)
+ /* refuse to load more than one megabyte of tag data */
+ goto fail;
if (fseek(fp, size - tagLen, SEEK_SET))
goto fail;