curl_easy_unescape: deny negative string lengths as input

CVE-2016-7167

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160914.html

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/escape.c b/lib/escape.c
index 63edd84fa..e61260d7c 100644
--- a/lib/escape.c
+++ b/lib/escape.c
@@ -217,14 +217,16 @@ char *curl_easy_unescape(struct Curl_easy *data, const char *string,
                          int length, int *olen)
 {
   char *str = NULL;
-  size_t inputlen = length;
-  size_t outputlen;
-  CURLcode res = Curl_urldecode(data, string, inputlen, &str, &outputlen,
-                                FALSE);
-  if(res)
-    return NULL;
-  if(olen)
-    *olen = curlx_uztosi(outputlen);
+  if(length >= 0) {
+    size_t inputlen = length;
+    size_t outputlen;
+    CURLcode res = Curl_urldecode(data, string, inputlen, &str, &outputlen,
+                                  FALSE);
+    if(res)
+      return NULL;
+    if(olen)
+      *olen = curlx_uztosi(outputlen);
+  }
   return str;
 }