Origin: http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633 Description: Fix CVE-2012-2944: upsd can be remotely crashed Index: nut-2.6.3/common/parseconf.c =================================================================== --- nut-2.6.3.orig/common/parseconf.c 2011-10-04 02:06:25.000000000 -0500 +++ nut-2.6.3/common/parseconf.c 2012-05-30 13:29:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -171,6 +171,13 @@ wbuflen = strlen(ctx->wordbuf); + /* CVE-2012-2944: only allow the subset Ascii charset from Space to ~ */ + if ((ctx->ch < 0x20) || (ctx->ch > 0x7f)) { + fprintf(stderr, "addchar: discarding invalid character (0x%02x)!\n", + ctx->ch); + return; + } + if (ctx->wordlen_limit != 0) { if (wbuflen >= ctx->wordlen_limit) {