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kconfig: nconf: Ensure null termination where strncpy is used
authorShankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:06:54 +0000 (00:36 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:30:47 +0000 (18:30 +0200)
[ Upstream commit f468992936894c9ce3b1659cf38c230d33b77a16 ]

strncpy() does not guarantee null-termination if the source string is
longer than the destination buffer.

Ensure the buffer is explicitly null-terminated to prevent potential
string overflows or undefined behavior.

Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c

index 063b4f7ccbdb369b96a01a9413f8ade5393beea9..5f484422278e1349ef997db08284d13f59b14671 100644 (file)
@@ -593,6 +593,8 @@ static void item_add_str(const char *fmt, ...)
                tmp_str,
                sizeof(k_menu_items[index].str));
 
+       k_menu_items[index].str[sizeof(k_menu_items[index].str) - 1] = '\0';
+
        free_item(curses_menu_items[index]);
        curses_menu_items[index] = new_item(
                        k_menu_items[index].str,
index 72b605efe549d9d82b2e8a0f29bf47036ea07e67..1526c52bc34cd06b757de47edaf37adaa2f5429b 100644 (file)
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ int dialog_inputbox(WINDOW *main_window,
        x = (columns-win_cols)/2;
 
        strncpy(result, init, *result_len);
+       result[*result_len - 1] = '\0';
 
        /* create the windows */
        win = newwin(win_lines, win_cols, y, x);