[srslte-users] Reporting bug in examples/hl_example.c

[Ismael Gomez]

Thank you Bhargava, we will fix this bug.

Regards
Ismael

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 at 07:19 Bhargava Shastry <
bshastry at sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to report a bug in the said file [1]. Problem is on line 65
> [Bug report attached]. If one calls hl_example with a negative first
> argument, the program segfaults because of an unchecked failure of malloc.
>
> A fix is to bail out with an error message if nbits is negative *before*
> the call to malloc or use strtoul [2] and assign it to (unsigned long)
> nbits.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE/blob/master/srslte/examples/hl_example.c#L65
> [2]:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strtoul.html
>
> Regards,
> Bhargava
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