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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2007-08-21 02:40:18 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2007-08-21 02:40:18 +0000
commitbbb7e05c32fb6e1a67dbd3eeaed97c106c277d95 (patch)
tree4fa3bd148d944693345496c4a8c3b175a7670aeb /src
parentd8cb5391c21d31de5c56b520ad7e2301c3299d4d (diff)
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Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched the
byte after the last full byte of the bit array, regardless of whether that byte was part of the valid data or not. Found by buildfarm testing. Thanks to Stefan Kaltenbrunner for nailing down the cause.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
index 7dbbed16f69..389749961c6 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c,v 1.47 2005/10/15 02:49:30 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c,v 1.47.2.1 2007/08/21 02:40:18 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -472,8 +472,9 @@ varbit_out(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
result = (char *) palloc(len + 1);
sp = VARBITS(s);
r = result;
- for (i = 0; i < len - BITS_PER_BYTE; i += BITS_PER_BYTE, sp++)
+ for (i = 0; i <= len - BITS_PER_BYTE; i += BITS_PER_BYTE, sp++)
{
+ /* print full bytes */
x = *sp;
for (k = 0; k < BITS_PER_BYTE; k++)
{
@@ -481,11 +482,15 @@ varbit_out(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
x <<= 1;
}
}
- x = *sp;
- for (k = i; k < len; k++)
+ if (i < len)
{
- *r++ = (x & BITHIGH) ? '1' : '0';
- x <<= 1;
+ /* print the last partial byte */
+ x = *sp;
+ for (k = i; k < len; k++)
+ {
+ *r++ = (x & BITHIGH) ? '1' : '0';
+ x <<= 1;
+ }
}
*r = '\0';