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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: Possible NULL-pointer dereference in
From:       Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-09 13:16:25
Message-ID: AANLkTinN7FvZz5ZjYFRe7RcIcY2n5yyFmfHAod6wdVwq () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since _g_file_attribute_value_set_from_pointer uses g_strdupv,
> value->u.stringv may be NULL. _as_string does a
>
> for (i = 0; attr->u.stringv[i] != NULL; i++)
>
> without first checking that attr->u.stringv isn’t NULL, a potential
> NULL-pointer dereference.
>
> Correct?

Technically correct. I think there is a general assumption that
attribute values are not NULL though. u.string being NULL would be bad
news e.g. for the byte string case, as well.
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