Int overflow in dhclient(1)

Michael McConville mmcco at mykolab.com
Tue Mar 15 06:23:26 UTC 2016


Ben Woods wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016, Michael McConville <mmcco at mykolab.com> wrote:
> 
> > I sent this a few weeks ago, but it never got applied:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-net&m=145392057613453&w=2
> >
> > Here's my explanation for the same fix in OpenBSD:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=145377854103866&w=2
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Index: sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c    (revision 296886)
> > +++ sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c    (working copy)
> > @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
> >  findproto(char *cp, int n)
> >  {
> >         struct sockaddr *sa;
> > -       int i;
> > +       unsigned int i;
> >
> >         if (n == 0)
> >                 return -1;
> >
> 
> Seems like a bug report should be raised so this one doesn't get
> lost/ignored.
> 
> Would you be able to raise one here please?
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/

I'll wait a day or two to see if a developer picks it up. Opening a bug
report is a lot of work for a pretty straight-forward addition of a
single token.


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