[Xen-devel] [PATCH] python/xc: fix out of bounds array access

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Writing a NUL terminator here isn't even necessary, since snprintf()
already guarantees proper termination.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- 2010-06-15.orig/tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c   2010-06-01 
13:39:57.000000000 +0200
+++ 2010-06-15/tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c        2010-06-15 
10:55:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ static PyObject *pyxc_error_to_exception
         snprintf(err_buf.message, sizeof(err_buf.message),
                  "xc_interface_open failed: %s",
                  strerror(errno));
-        err_buf.message[sizeof(err_buf)-1] = 0;
         err_buf.code = XC_INTERNAL_ERROR;
         err = &err_buf;
     }

Attachment: pyxc-array-bounds.patch
Description: Text document

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