The hexadecimal string parser does not check the target
field buffer size, buffer overflow happens and might
cause the application failure (segmentation fault
is observed usually).
Fixes:
169a9fed1f4c ("app/testpmd: fix hex string parser support for flow API")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
hexlen -= 2;
}
if (hexlen > length)
- return -1;
+ goto error;
ret = parse_hex_string(str, hex_tmp, &hexlen);
if (ret < 0)
goto error;
+ /* Check the converted binary fits into data buffer. */
+ if (hexlen > size)
+ goto error;
/* Let parse_int() fill length information first. */
ret = snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "%u", hexlen);
if (ret < 0)