Bug 90857 - Insufficient memory for terminating null of string is a bug.
Summary: Insufficient memory for terminating null of string is a bug.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Lib/Xcursor (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2015-06-05 04:59 UTC by shubham shrivastav
Modified: 2018-08-22 22:36 UTC (History)
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Patch file for the bug fix submitted. (418 bytes, text/plain)
2015-06-05 04:59 UTC, shubham shrivastav 		no flags Details
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Description shubham shrivastav 2015-06-05 04:59:14 UTC 
Created attachment 116298 [details]
Patch file for the bug fix submitted.

Insufficient memory for terminating null character of string is a bug. 
Fix does one byte of memory allocation for null termination of string.
This patch is based on version 1.1.14 of libXcursor.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2015-06-05 20:38:54 UTC 
Thanks for the fix, pushed to git master:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2018-08-22 22:36:01 UTC 
This was retroactively assigned CVE-2015-9262:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002917.html

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