Chris Webb wrote:
quoted text
> Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 characters instead of 8
> 
> monitor_readline expects buf_size to include the terminating __PLACEHOLDER__0_, but
> do_change_vnc in monitor.c calls it as though it doesn't. The other site
> where monitor_readline reads a password (in vl.c) passes the buffer length
> correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
> ---
>  monitor.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index 22360fc..6ae5729 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static void do_change_vnc(const char *target)
>      if (strcmp(target, "passwd") == 0 ||
>  	strcmp(target, "password") == 0) {
>  	char password[9];
> -	monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password)-1);
> +	monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password));
>  	password[sizeof(password)-1] = '__PLACEHOLDER__0_';

The next line can go as well, the string is already NULL terminated.


Thiemo
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