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Null pointer due to insufficient permissions in weather-configurator. #241

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liyansong2018 opened this issue Jun 7, 2022 · 1 comment

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@liyansong2018
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Hi

If we run weather-configurator with normal permissions, the program will crash due to null pointer.

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FILE * f = fopen("/etc/weather.json", "w");
fprintf(f, "{\n");
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klange commented Jun 9, 2022

As per my comment on your pull request, a reasonable quick fix for the common scenario is to require root:

diff --git a/apps/weather-configurator.c b/apps/weather-configurator.c
index d5169d8f..77653605 100644
--- a/apps/weather-configurator.c
+++ b/apps/weather-configurator.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 K. Lange
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include <toaru/json.h>
 #include <toaru/hashmap.h>
 #include <toaru/list.h>
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@
 typedef struct JSON_Value Value;
 
 int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
+	if (getuid() != 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s: this tool should be run as root\n", argv[0]);
+		return 1;
+	}
 
 	Value * config = json_parse_file("/etc/weather.json");
 	if (config) {

Root may still encounter errors trying to open the configuration file, though - such as when the filesystem is read-only, so this isn't a complete solution and the error check from fopen is still worthwhile.

However, I would prefer to just implement a GUI config tool for this, as it's meant to be launched from the menu on the panel widget and opening a terminal to enter config settings is somewhat silly.

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