bus-message: do not crash on message with a string of zero length

We'd calculate the "real" length of the string as 'item_size - 1', which does
not work out well when item_size == 0.

(cherry picked from commit 81b6e63029eefcb0ec03a3a7c248490e38106073)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libelogind/sd-bus/bus-message.c b/src/libelogind/sd-bus/bus-message.c
index dd4c23683..1f2dac695 100644
--- a/src/libelogind/sd-bus/bus-message.c
+++ b/src/libelogind/sd-bus/bus-message.c
@@ -3317,6 +3317,12 @@ _public_ int sd_bus_message_read_basic(sd_bus_message *m, char type, void *p) {
                 if (IN_SET(type, SD_BUS_TYPE_STRING, SD_BUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH, SD_BUS_TYPE_SIGNATURE)) {
                         bool ok;
 
+                        /* D-Bus spec: The marshalling formats for the string-like types all end
+                         * with a single zero (NUL) byte, but that byte is not considered to be part
+                         * of the text. */
+                        if (c->item_size == 0)
+                                return -EBADMSG;
+
                         r = message_peek_body(m, &rindex, 1, c->item_size, &q);
                         if (r < 0)
                                 return r;