Dear Jörn Dinkla, We are a group of Academic researchers. We are analyzing vulnerable C++ code snippets migrated from StackOverflow to GitHub. Our research will be published in Academic publications and will not be used in any Industrial application. We noted a vulnerable code snippet in your repository that was most likely copied from Stack Overflow. The vulnerability exists in this source code file of your repository.

Please verify our report here with regards to the above vulnerability to assist you. Link to report with four questions for you related to the vulnerability (should not take more than 5 minutes to answer).

Here is a summary of the vulnerable code snippet:

Description:

We need to check memory allocation result for:

img = (unsigned char *)malloc(3*w*h);

Mitigation:

Check malloc return value for failure.

img = (unsigned char *)malloc(3*w*h);
if(img == NULL)
throw "Malloc Failed!"

Sincerely yours, Morteza Verdi, Shiraz university, E-mail: m.verdi@shirazu.ac.ir Jafar Akhondali, Shiraz university, E-mail: jafar.akhondali@yahoo.com Ashkan Sami, Shiraz university, E-mail: ashkan.sami@gmail.com Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: foutse.khomh@polymtl.ca, website: http://www.khomh.net/ Gias Uddin, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: gias98@gmail.com, website: https://giasuddin.github.io Alireza Karami motlagh, Shahid Chamran University, E-mail: alireza.karami.m@gmail.com

jdinkla / parallel2015_gpucomputing

Academic research on vulnerable c++ code snippet #1

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