decoder could read 1 byte beyond data of section 4

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libecbufr is a general purpose, template-oriented BUFR encoding/decoding library

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decoder could read 1 byte beyond data of section 4 #62

Open vsouvan opened 4 years ago

vsouvan commented 4 years ago

When an invalid BUFR message with a short data section 4. The decoder may read 1 byte beyond data of section4 in memory. This could result in false value for the last descriptor if section 4 is short by 1 byte only.

Imported from Launchpad using lp2gh.

date created: 2014-03-18T19:45:45Z
owner: vanh-souvanlasy
assignee: vanh-souvanlasy
the launchpad url was https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1294321

vsouvan commented 4 years ago

(by vanh-souvanlasy) substracted 1 from test condition before allowing use of next byte.