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Possible integer overflow

 
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DigitalXeron



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:50 pm    Post subject: Possible integer overflow Reply with quote

Hi,

I have discovered a possible integer overflow in the miniupnpc-20090129.tar.gz package. The "Bytes" section of the "-s" parameter only allows entries to go up to 2^32 (4,294,967,296). However, if the counter exceeds this, it loops back to 0 and begins counting up from that again, indicating an integer overflow, thus producing potentially inaccurate results.

Thanks.

Edit:
I have reviewed the source code and it seems as if many of the counters are using unsigned ints, which have an upper limit of 2^32 (4,294,967,296) on 32-bit systems (see: limits.h). This might be what is causing the issue at hand, however, I do not know this codebase sufficiently to make all changes nessasary to convert the all of the counters into a more appropreate data type.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree this limitation should be properly documented.
but nobody cares much...

If you really care, you could do a patch using type unsigned long long and function strtoull() by modifying relevant functions in upnpcommands.c. I'll may do that when I had some free time.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, I'll see what I can do as far as a patch is concerned.
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