File curl-CVE-2016-8618.patch of Package curl.5421

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File curl-CVE-2016-8618.patch of Package curl.5421

From bf952ecb87276a1f782c07d1ca229717fff31fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:15:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] aprintf: detect wrap-around when growing allocation

On 32bit systems we could otherwise wrap around after 2GB and allocate 0
bytes and crash.
---
 lib/mprintf.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: curl-7.37.0/lib/mprintf.c
===================================================================
--- curl-7.37.0.orig/lib/mprintf.c	2014-05-06 09:57:41.000000000 +0200
+++ curl-7.37.0/lib/mprintf.c	2016-10-20 15:11:45.702638384 +0200
@@ -1011,16 +1011,19 @@ static int alloc_addbyter(int output, FI
     infop->len =0;
   }
   else if(infop->len+1 >= infop->alloc) {
-    char *newptr;
+    char *newptr = NULL;
+    size_t newsize = infop->alloc*2;
 
-    newptr = realloc(infop->buffer, infop->alloc*2);
+    /* detect wrap-around or other overflow problems */
+    if(newsize > infop->alloc)
+      newptr = realloc(infop->buffer, newsize);
 
     if(!newptr) {
       infop->fail = 1;
       return -1; /* fail */
     }
     infop->buffer = newptr;
-    infop->alloc *= 2;
+    infop->alloc = newsize;
   }
 
   infop->buffer[ infop->len ] = outc;

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