guix/gnu/packages/patches/ghostscript-CVE-2015-3228.patch
Mark H Weaver 35a12b4719 gnu: ghostscript: Add fix for CVE-2015-3228.
* gnu/packages/patches/ghostscript-CVE-2015-3228.patch: New file.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript)[source]: Add patch.
2015-07-27 04:38:44 -04:00

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The file names in the upstream patch below were modified to apply to GNU
ghostscript.
From 0c0b0859ae1aba64861599f0e7f74f143f305932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:57:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 696041: sanity check for memory allocation.
In gs_heap_alloc_bytes(), add a sanity check to ensure we don't overflow the
variable holding the actual number of bytes we allocate.
No cluster differences
---
gs/base/gsmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/base/gsmalloc.c b/base/gsmalloc.c
index 624552d..cad79c2 100644
--- a/base/gsmalloc.c
+++ b/base/gsmalloc.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ gs_heap_alloc_bytes(gs_memory_t * mem, uint size, client_name_t cname)
} else {
uint added = size + sizeof(gs_malloc_block_t);
- if (mmem->limit - added < mmem->used)
+ if (added <= size || mmem->limit - added < mmem->used)
set_msg("exceeded limit");
else if ((ptr = (byte *) Memento_label(malloc(added), cname)) == 0)
set_msg("failed");
--
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