Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> And, a possible solution from Anders Kaseorg...
>  This example sprintf() call could be fixed as follows:
>   -sprintf(buf, "%s plus %d", buf, k);
>   +sprintf(buf + strlen(buf), " plus %d", k);
>  Similarly, an invalid snprintf() call could be fixed as follows:
>   -snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s plus %d", buf, k);
>   +snprintf(buf + strlen(buf), buflen - strlen(buf), " plus %d", k);

> Attached is a list of affected packages, generated via:

>   pcregrep -M 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,'
>   pcregrep -M 'snprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,[^,]*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,'

I would note that this regexp, and the proposed solution, will not match
i18nized format strings; i.e.,

  sprintf(buf, _("%s plus %d"), buf, k);

I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so, using
sprintf(buf + strlen(buf) [...]) is definitely wrong.

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