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authorNRK <nrk@disroot.org>2026-02-17 07:31:35 +0000
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2026-02-20 15:31:29 +0100
commitc3dd6a829b3f5cb9474bcca787a9c8a86932d75d (patch)
tree256f63f00902a3dd90fca58cadc93e825da69cca
parent5c9f30300bec2f7eec9ba61d0c11df999e17f860 (diff)
more overflow fix in getatomprop()HEADmaster
commit 244fa852 (and a9aa0d8) tried to fix overflow by checking the number of items returned. however this is not sufficient since the format may be lower than 32 bits. to reproduce the crash, i used the reproducer given in commit 244fa85 but changed the XChangeProperty line to the following to set the property to a 1 element 16 bit item: short si = 1; XChangeProperty(d, w, net_wm_state, XA_ATOM, 16, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *)&si, 1); this client reliably crashes dwm under ASAN since dwm is trying to read a 32 bit value from a 16 bit one. fix it by checking for format == 32 as well. also change the access type from Atom to long, on my machine Atom is typedef-ed to long already but that may not be true everywere. the XGetWindowProperty manpage says format == 32 is returned as `long` so use `long` directly. (N.B: it also might be worth checking if the returned type is XA_ATOM as well, but i wasn't able to cause any crashes by setting different types so i'm leaving it out for now.)
-rw-r--r--dwm.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index a5e1ce9..0a67103 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -863,15 +863,15 @@ focusstack(const Arg *arg)
Atom
getatomprop(Client *c, Atom prop)
{
- int di;
+ int format;
unsigned long nitems, dl;
unsigned char *p = NULL;
Atom da, atom = None;
if (XGetWindowProperty(dpy, c->win, prop, 0L, sizeof atom, False, XA_ATOM,
- &da, &di, &nitems, &dl, &p) == Success && p) {
- if (nitems > 0)
- atom = *(Atom *)p;
+ &da, &format, &nitems, &dl, &p) == Success && p) {
+ if (nitems > 0 && format == 32)
+ atom = *(long *)p;
XFree(p);
}
return atom;