From clemens@ladisch.de Fri Apr 24 15:32:58 2009 From: Clemens Ladisch Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:11:56 +0200 Subject: nls: utf8_wcstombs: fix buffer overflow To: Greg KH Cc: Eugen Dedu , Alan Stern Message-ID: <49F1744C.9010203@ladisch.de> utf8_wcstombs forgot to include one-byte UTF-8 characters when calculating the output buffer size, i.e., theoretically, it was possible to overflow the output buffer with an input string that contains enough ASCII characters. In practice, this was no problem because the only user so far (VFAT) always uses a big enough output buffer. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/nls/nls_base.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/nls/nls_base.c +++ b/fs/nls/nls_base.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ utf8_wcstombs(__u8 *s, const wchar_t *pw } } else { *op++ = (__u8) *ip; + maxlen--; } ip++; }