We're dealing with three kinds of string storage: char * pointing to a
null-terminated string, char[] holding a null-terminated string, and
char holding a string of length 0 or 1.
Unfortunately, xdump meta data doesn't distinguish the latter two:
both are NSC_STRINGY. Because of that, xundump happily fills char[]
to the limit, producing strings that aren't null-terminated, resulting
in read beyond buffer and possibly worse.
Affects struct shpstr members shp_path, shp_name, shp_rpath, struct
lndstr member lnd_rpath, and struct natstr members nat_cnam, nat_pnam,
nat_hostaddr, nat_hostname, nat_userid. Since these are all in game
state, only the empdump utility program is affected, not the
configuration table reader.
We clearly need to require null-termination for char[] values. Since
using char[1] for null-terminated strings makes no sense, we can still
make NSC_STRINGY with length 1 serve char values as before, by
permitting non-null-terminated strings only when length is 1. Ugly
wart, but it fixes the bug without a possibly awkward change xdump
meta-data.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
Markus Armbruster
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