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author | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2008-07-17 13:17:51 +0400 |
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committer | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2008-07-17 13:17:51 +0400 |
commit | 0f683f818cf087d580ba2edf7c096897bc28b95a (patch) | |
tree | 0324365d1cf7ec43679c202681fe55bfa81e439f /coreutils/printf.c | |
parent | 416914fc6115d2013433a5956febcffb5c8a0466 (diff) |
printf: protect against bogus format specifiers. Hopefully closes bug 4184
Diffstat (limited to 'coreutils/printf.c')
-rw-r--r-- | coreutils/printf.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/printf.c b/coreutils/printf.c index a14306f5a..d877e0581 100644 --- a/coreutils/printf.c +++ b/coreutils/printf.c @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ The 'format' argument is re-used as many times as necessary to convert all of the given arguments. - David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu> */ + David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu> +*/ // 19990508 Busy Boxed! Dave Cinege @@ -251,10 +252,12 @@ static char **print_formatted(char *f, char **argv) ++f; ++direc_length; } - /* - if (!strchr ("diouxXfeEgGcs", *f)) - fprintf(stderr, "%%%c: invalid directive", *f); - */ + /* needed - try "printf %" without it */ + if (!strchr("diouxXfeEgGcs", *f)) { + bb_error_msg("invalid directive '%s'", direc_start); + /* causes main() to exit with error */ + return saved_argv - 1; + } ++direc_length; if (*argv) { print_direc(direc_start, direc_length, field_width, @@ -285,7 +288,8 @@ int printf_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) char **argv2; /* We must check that stdout is not closed. - * The reason for this is highly non-obvious. printf_main is used from shell. + * The reason for this is highly non-obvious. + * printf_main is used from shell. * Shell must correctly handle 'printf "%s" foo' * if stdout is closed. With stdio, output gets shoveled into * stdout buffer, and even fflush cannot clear it out. It seems that @@ -298,7 +302,7 @@ int printf_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) /* bash builtin errors out on "printf '-%s-\n' foo", * coreutils-6.9 works. Both work with "printf -- '-%s-\n' foo". * We will mimic coreutils. */ - if (argv[1] && argv[1][0] == '-' && argv[1][1] == '-' && argv[1][2] == '\0') + if (argv[1] && argv[1][0] == '-' && argv[1][1] == '-' && !argv[1][2]) argv++; if (!argv[1]) bb_show_usage(); @@ -309,12 +313,12 @@ int printf_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) do { argv = argv2; argv2 = print_formatted(format, argv); - } while (argv2 != argv && *argv2); + } while (argv2 > argv && *argv2); /* coreutils compat (bash doesn't do this): if (*argv) fprintf(stderr, "excess args ignored"); */ - return EXIT_SUCCESS; + return (argv2 < argv); /* if true, print_formatted errored out */ } |