[flashrom] [PATCH] CID1130011: Use after free

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Tue Nov 19 20:35:57 CET 2013


CID1130011: Use after free

This could cause an immediate crash or incorrect values might be read
subsequently resulting in incorrect computations.
In dump_file: A pointer to freed memory is dereferenced, used as a function
argument, or otherwise used

Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org>

Index: util/ich_descriptors_tool/ich_descriptors_tool.c
===================================================================
--- util/ich_descriptors_tool/ich_descriptors_tool.c	(revision 1763)
+++ util/ich_descriptors_tool/ich_descriptors_tool.c	(working copy)
@@ -77,12 +77,13 @@
 	printf("Dumping %u bytes of the %s region from 0x%08x-0x%08x to %s... ",
 	       file_len, region_names[i], base, limit, fn);
 	int fh = open(fn, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
-	free(fn);
 	if (fh < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr,
 			"ERROR: couldn't open(%s): %s\n", fn, strerror(errno));
+		free(fn);
 		exit(1);
 	}
+	free(fn);
 
 	ret = write(fh, &dump[base >> 2], file_len);
 	if (ret != file_len) {




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