Fix out-of-bounds memory accesses with virtual_root=""

The CGit configuration variable virtual_root is normalized so that it
does not have a trailing '/' character, but it is allowed to be empty
(the empty string and NULL have different meanings here) and there is
code that is insufficiently cautious when checking if it ends in a '/':

	if (virtual_root[strlen(virtual_root) - 1] != '/')

Clearly this check is redundant, but rather than simply removing it we
get a slight efficiency improvement by switching the normalization so
that the virtual_root variable always ends in '/'.  Do this with a new
"ensure_end" helper.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index ca3034c..6f75db1 100644
--- a/cgit.c
+++ b/cgit.c
@@ -155,9 +155,7 @@ static void config_cb(const char *name, const char *value)
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "strict-export"))
 		ctx.cfg.strict_export = xstrdup(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "virtual-root")) {
-		ctx.cfg.virtual_root = trim_end(value, '/');
-		if (!ctx.cfg.virtual_root && (!strcmp(value, "/")))
-			ctx.cfg.virtual_root = "";
+		ctx.cfg.virtual_root = ensure_end(value, '/');
 	} else if (!strcmp(name, "nocache"))
 		ctx.cfg.nocache = atoi(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "noplainemail"))
@@ -833,11 +831,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	 * that virtual-root equals SCRIPT_NAME, minus any possibly
 	 * trailing slashes.
 	 */
-	if (!ctx.cfg.virtual_root && ctx.cfg.script_name) {
-		ctx.cfg.virtual_root = trim_end(ctx.cfg.script_name, '/');
-		if (!ctx.cfg.virtual_root)
-			ctx.cfg.virtual_root = "";
-	}
+	if (!ctx.cfg.virtual_root && ctx.cfg.script_name)
+		ctx.cfg.virtual_root = ensure_end(ctx.cfg.script_name, '/');
 
 	/* If no url parameter is specified on the querystring, lets
 	 * use PATH_INFO as url. This allows cgit to work with virtual