From b5daab9d464d239b0bf24379c6472ba09af35f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:13:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix a local DoS (by hitting an assert) when passing empty TXT
 strings to the avahi-daemon for regsitration. (Problem identified and
 original patch supplied by Emanuele Aina)

git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@1482 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe
---
 avahi-common/strlst.c    | 2 +-
 avahi-daemon/dbus-util.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/avahi-common/strlst.c b/avahi-common/strlst.c
index c6ceb0f..9ffa18e 100644
--- a/avahi-common/strlst.c
+++ b/avahi-common/strlst.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ AvahiStringList*avahi_string_list_add_anonymous(AvahiStringList *l, size_t size)
 AvahiStringList *avahi_string_list_add_arbitrary(AvahiStringList *l, const uint8_t*text, size_t size) {
     AvahiStringList *n;
 
-    assert(text);
+    assert(size == 0 || text);
 
     if (!(n = avahi_string_list_add_anonymous(l, size)))
         return NULL;
diff --git a/avahi-daemon/dbus-util.c b/avahi-daemon/dbus-util.c
index d1a7a20..ca08d7b 100644
--- a/avahi-daemon/dbus-util.c
+++ b/avahi-daemon/dbus-util.c
@@ -344,6 +344,9 @@ int avahi_dbus_read_strlst(DBusMessage *m, int idx, AvahiStringList **l) {
         k = (const uint8_t*) "";
         n = 0;
         dbus_message_iter_get_fixed_array(&sub2, &k, &n);
+
+        if (!k)
+            k = (const uint8_t*) "";
             
         strlst = avahi_string_list_add_arbitrary(strlst, k, n);
         
-- 
2.39.5