sscanf is relatively loose (tolerate) on some invalid formats that we should fail instead of generating a wrong uuid structure, like with whitespaces and short strings.
Add and use a helper function to first check the format. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jc...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1474432046-325-11-git-send-email-f...@redhat.com> --- util/uuid.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/util/uuid.c b/util/uuid.c index 4701903..dd6b5fd 100644 --- a/util/uuid.c +++ b/util/uuid.c @@ -61,12 +61,34 @@ char *qemu_uuid_unparse_strdup(const QemuUUID *uuid) uu[13], uu[14], uu[15]); } +static bool qemu_uuid_is_valid(const char *str) +{ + int i; + + for (i = 0; i < strlen(str); i++) { + const char c = str[i]; + if (i == 8 || i == 13 || i == 18 || i == 23) { + if (str[i] != '-') { + return false; + } + } else { + if ((c >= '0' && c <= '9') || + (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') || + (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f')) { + continue; + } + return false; + } + } + return i == 36; +} + int qemu_uuid_parse(const char *str, QemuUUID *uuid) { unsigned char *uu = &uuid->data[0]; int ret; - if (strlen(str) != 36) { + if (!qemu_uuid_is_valid(str)) { return -1; } -- 2.7.4