[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Fix gnutls_pkcs11_token_get_info for short output buffers and fix a memleak (!827)

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Thu Dec 13 15:14:12 CET 2018


Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos commented on a discussion on lib/pkcs11.c:

>  			goto cleanup;
>  		}
>  
> -		snprintf(output, *output_size, "%s", tn.modname);
> -		*output_size = strlen(output);
> -		ret = 0;
> -		goto cleanup;
> +		modname = tn.modname;
> +		if (modname == NULL) {
> +			gnutls_assert();

Yes, with glibc applications printed `(null)` but did not get an error. What I worry with the error code is that if the application would now receive an error it may exercise a code path that leads to a fatal error for the user.

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