Bug#826324: Array out of bounds in loop

Bas Wijnen wijnen at debian.org
Sat Jun 4 15:17:41 UTC 2016


Package: freedink
Version: 108.4-1
Severity: normal

While compiling the package from the Debian source, I saw a warning about
undefined behavior, and it is indeed a bug.

In src/dinkc.c, MAX_CALLBACKS is defined as 100, and callback is defined as

static struct call_back callback[MAX_CALLBACKS];

There is a comment on it that says:
/* TODO: Used 1->100 in the game, should it be MAX_CALLBACKS+1 ? */

Most of the code uses k < MAX_CALLBACKS to detect the end, so it would work
(but it would also be one short of what the original game expects; I have not checked if the original is writing out of bounds).

However, the warning is about line 843, which says k <= MAX_CALLBACKS.

This is wrong, and there are two possible solutions.

1. Change <= into <.  I think this is wrong, because the game expects callback[100] to be valid.
2. So instead, the array should be defined as MAX_CALLBACKS + 1 and all the other limit checks should be changed into <=.

Thanks,
Bas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: mipsel, armhf, i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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Versions of packages freedink depends on:
ii  freedink-dfarc   3.12-1+b1
ii  freedink-engine  108.4-1

freedink recommends no packages.

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