[Xen-devel] [PATCH 21/21] libxc: check blob size before proceeding in xc_dom_check_gzip

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx>

This is part of the fix to a security issue, XSA-55.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
index 3cbf9f7..37bb566 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@ size_t xc_dom_check_gzip(xc_interface *xch, void *blob, 
size_t ziplen)
     unsigned char *gzlen;
     size_t unziplen;
 
+    if ( ziplen < 6 )
+        /* too small */
+        return 0;
+
     if ( strncmp(blob, "\037\213", 2) )
         /* not gzipped */
         return 0;
-- 
1.7.2.5


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