kconfig: lxdialog: replace strcpy() with strncpy() in inputbox.c
authorSuchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:44:33 +0000 (22:14 +0530)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Aug 2025 01:23:36 +0000 (10:23 +0900)
strcpy() performs no bounds checking and can lead to buffer overflows if
the input string exceeds the destination buffer size. This patch replaces
it with strncpy(), and null terminates the input string.

Signed-off-by: Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.c

index 3c6e24b..5e4a131 100644 (file)
@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ int dialog_inputbox(const char *title, const char *prompt, int height, int width
 
        if (!init)
                instr[0] = '\0';
-       else
-               strcpy(instr, init);
+       else {
+               strncpy(instr, init, sizeof(dialog_input_result) - 1);
+               instr[sizeof(dialog_input_result) - 1] = '\0';
+       }
 
 do_resize:
        if (getmaxy(stdscr) <= (height - INPUTBOX_HEIGHT_MIN))