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bin/50454: fix wall(1) -g
>Number: 50454
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: fix wall(1) -g
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 21 03:55:00 +0000 2015
>Originator: Timo Buhrmester
>Release: 7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD dedi 7.0_STABLE NetBSD 7.0_STABLE (DEDIKERN) #0: Wed Nov 18 03:23:46 CET 2015 build@dedi:/stor/netbsd/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/DEDIKERN amd64
>Description:
Due to a missing sizeof, wall(1) allocates too little memory to hold the group member list which leads to undefined behavior when attempting to send messages to all users in a group using wall -g.
Below is a patch to correct this.
While there, remove two unnecessary typecasts.
>How-To-Repeat:
echo foo | wall -g nonempty_group
>Fix:
--- usr.bin/wall/wall.c.orig 2015-11-21 04:44:01.000000000 +0100
+++ usr.bin/wall/wall.c 2015-11-21 04:44:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -169,12 +169,12 @@
for (i = 0; grp->gr_mem[i]; i++)
continue;
- g = (struct wallgroup *)malloc(sizeof *g);
+ g = malloc(sizeof *g);
if (g == NULL)
err(1, "malloc");
g->gid = grp->gr_gid;
g->name = name;
- g->mem = (char **)malloc(i + 1);
+ g->mem = malloc((i + 1) * sizeof *g->mem);
if (g->mem == NULL)
err(1, "malloc");
for (i = 0; grp->gr_mem[i] != NULL; i++) {
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