signedness bug & integer overflow in _XcursorFileHeaderCreate() [CVE-2013-2003]
When parsing cursor files, a user defined (e.g. through environment variables) cursor file is opened and parsed. The header is read in _XcursorReadFileHeader(), which reads an unsigned int for the number of toc structures in the header, but it was being passed to _XcursorFileHeaderCreate() as a signed int to allocate those structures. If the number was negative, it would pass the bounds check and could overflow the calculation for how much memory to allocate to store the data being read, leading to overflowing the buffer with the data read from the user controlled file. Reported-by:Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com> Signed-off-by:
Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
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