krb5 commit: Fix leak in KDC NDR encoding

ghudson at mit.edu ghudson at mit.edu
Tue Mar 19 10:53:56 EDT 2024


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/7d0d85bf99caf60c0afd4dcf91b0c4c683b983fe
commit 7d0d85bf99caf60c0afd4dcf91b0c4c683b983fe
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
Date:   Tue Mar 5 17:38:49 2024 -0500

    Fix leak in KDC NDR encoding
    
    If the KDC tries to encode a principal containing encode invalid UTF-8
    sequences for inclusion in a PAC delegation info buffer, it will leak
    a small amount of memory in enc_wchar_pointer() before failing.  Fix
    the leak.
    
    ticket: 9115 (new)
    tags: pullup
    target_version: 1.21-next

 src/kdc/ndr.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/kdc/ndr.c b/src/kdc/ndr.c
index 48395abe5..d438408ee 100644
--- a/src/kdc/ndr.c
+++ b/src/kdc/ndr.c
@@ -96,14 +96,13 @@ enc_wchar_pointer(const char *utf8, struct encoded_wchars *encoded_out)
     size_t utf16len, num_wchars;
     uint8_t *utf16;
 
-    k5_buf_init_dynamic(&b);
-
     ret = k5_utf8_to_utf16le(utf8, &utf16, &utf16len);
     if (ret)
         return ret;
 
     num_wchars = utf16len / 2;
 
+    k5_buf_init_dynamic(&b);
     k5_buf_add_uint32_le(&b, num_wchars + 1);
     k5_buf_add_uint32_le(&b, 0);
     k5_buf_add_uint32_le(&b, num_wchars);


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