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[Xen-devel] [PATCH]: xc: fix segfault in pv domain create if kernel is a

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: xc: fix segfault in pv domain create if kernel is an invalid image
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:04:56 +0100
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If libelf calls elf_err() or elf_msg() before elf_set_log() has been
called then it could potentially read an uninitialised log handling
callback function pointer from struct elf_binary. Fix this in libxc by
zeroing the structure before calling elf_init().

Signed-off-by: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r ac93a1ec290c tools/libxc/xc_hvm_build.c
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_hvm_build.c        Mon Aug 09 16:10:41 2010 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_hvm_build.c        Mon Aug 09 17:04:28 2010 +0100
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ static int setup_guest(xc_interface *xch
     if ( memsize > target )
         pod_mode = 1;
 
+    memset(&elf, 0, sizeof(elf));
     if ( elf_init(&elf, image, image_size) != 0 )
         goto error_out;
     elf_parse_binary(&elf);



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