[patch] sftp-server basepath [yet another]

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Sun Sep 2 23:06:52 EST 2007


On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:22:11PM -0300, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:
> I made this simple path to make sftp-server restricted to a basepath!
[...]
> +	if(strncmp(basepath,realpath(path,NULL),strlen(basepath))==0) {

Passing a NULL as the second argument to realpath is a) nonstandard and
b) makes it malloc the returned string, so this leaks memory.  Also,
realpath can fail and return NULL, in which case this would segfault.

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