Author: Antonio Diaz-Diaz Description: zcat.cc: Fixed a buffer overrun on outbuf when '-v' is used [CVE-2018-1000637] (Closes: #902936). diff -Naurp zutils/zcat.cc zutils/zcat.cc --- zutils/zcat.cc +++ zutils/zcat.cc @@ -232,8 +232,9 @@ int cat( int infd, const int format_inde enum { buffer_size = 4096 }; // buffer with space for sentinel newline at the end uint8_t * const inbuf = new uint8_t[buffer_size+1]; - // buffer with space for character quoting and 255-digit line number - uint8_t * const outbuf = new uint8_t[(4*buffer_size)+256]; + // buffer with space for character quoting, 255-digit line number and + // worst case flushing respect to inbuf. + uint8_t * const outbuf = new uint8_t[(5*buffer_size)+256]; int retval = 0; Children children; if( !set_data_feeder( input_filename, &infd, children, format_index ) )