GH-895: Remove use of Variable-Length-Arrays

aux/bifcl

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit abfe5cb864a17b8c06c70d4674b32a51280ee62b
+Subproject commit 5a43a584e861d0fdbcdb42ef848e676dab179bd5

aux/binpac

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7892be3fb11a458fec2c8879e862f5db987607b2
+Subproject commit 105e243ce5ad55ca28f4a6511d18d973d494dd2a

cmake

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit aa45717169e44cc171efcf6abf904c5f9725d09a
+Subproject commit 3d656738a538a6b3d322a09173b656c929044e2e

src/DFA.cc

@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ DFA_State* DFA_State_Cache::Lookup(const NFA_state_list& nfas, DigestStr* digest
 	{
 	// We assume that state ID's don't exceed 10 digits, plus
 	// we allow one more character for the delimiter.
-	u_char id_tag[nfas.length() * 11 + 1];
+	auto id_tag_buf = std::make_unique<u_char[]>(nfas.length() * 11 + 1);
+	auto id_tag = id_tag_buf.get();
 	u_char* p = id_tag;
 
 	for ( int i = 0; i < nfas.length(); ++i )

src/Debug.cc

@@ -565,7 +565,8 @@ int dbg_execute_command(const char* cmd)
 	delete [] localcmd;
 
 	// Make sure we know this op name.
-	const char* matching_cmds[num_debug_cmds()];
+	auto matching_cmds_buf = std::make_unique<const char*[]>(num_debug_cmds());
+	auto matching_cmds = matching_cmds_buf.get();
 	int num_matches = find_all_matching_cmds(opstring, matching_cmds);
 
 	if ( ! num_matches )

src/analyzer/protocol/smb/smb-strings.pac

@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ refine connection SMB_Conn += {
 	function uint8s_to_stringval(data: uint8[]): StringVal
 		%{
 		int length = data->size();
-		uint8 buf[length];
+		auto buf = std::make_unique<uint8[]>(length);
 
 		for ( int i = 0; i < length; ++i)
 			buf[i] = (*data)[i];
 
-		const bytestring bs = bytestring(buf, length);
+		const bytestring bs = bytestring(buf.get(), length);
 		return utf16_bytestring_to_utf8_val(bro_analyzer()->Conn(), bs);
 		%}
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ refine connection SMB_Conn += {
 		if ( s->unicode() == false )
 			{
 			int length = s->a()->size();
-			char buf[length];
+			auto buf = std::make_unique<char[]>(length);
 
 			for ( int i = 0; i < length; i++)
 				{
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ refine connection SMB_Conn += {
 			if ( length > 0 && buf[length-1] == 0x00 )
 				length--;
 
-			return new StringVal(length, buf);
+			return new StringVal(length, buf.get());
 			}
 		else
 			{

src/analyzer/protocol/socks/socks-analyzer.pac

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ StringVal* array_to_string(vector<uint8> *a);
 StringVal* array_to_string(vector<uint8> *a)
 	{
 	int len = a->size();
-	char tmp[len];
-	char *s = tmp;
+	auto tmp = std::make_unique<char[]>(len);
+	char *s = tmp.get();
 	for ( vector<uint8>::iterator i = a->begin(); i != a->end(); *s++ = *i++ );
 
 	while ( len > 0 && tmp[len-1] == '\0' )
 		--len;
 
-	return new StringVal(len, tmp);
+	return new StringVal(len, tmp.get());
 	}
 %}
 

src/analyzer/protocol/zip/ZIP.cc

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void ZIP_Analyzer::DeliverStream(int len, const u_char* data, bool orig)
 		return;
 
 	static unsigned int unzip_size = 4096;
-	Bytef unzipbuf[unzip_size];
+	auto unzipbuf = std::make_unique<Bytef[]>(unzip_size);
 
 	int allow_restart = 1;
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ void ZIP_Analyzer::DeliverStream(int len, const u_char* data, bool orig)
 
 	while ( true )
 		{
-		zip->next_out = unzipbuf;
+		zip->next_out = unzipbuf.get();
 		zip->avail_out = unzip_size;
 
 		zip_status = inflate(zip, Z_SYNC_FLUSH);
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void ZIP_Analyzer::DeliverStream(int len, const u_char* data, bool orig)
 
 			int have = unzip_size - zip->avail_out;
 			if ( have )
-				ForwardStream(have, unzipbuf, IsOrig());
+				ForwardStream(have, unzipbuf.get(), IsOrig());
 
 			if ( zip_status == Z_STREAM_END )
 				{

src/binpac_bro-lib.pac

@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ function utf16_bytestring_to_utf8_val(conn: Connection, utf16: bytestring): Stri
 
 	// We can't assume that the string data is properly aligned
 	// here, so make a copy.
-	UTF16 utf16_copy[utf16.length()]; // Twice as much memory than necessary.
-	memset(utf16_copy, 0, sizeof(utf16_copy)); // needs to be set to 0, otherwhise we have uninitialized memory issues when utf16.length is odd.
+	auto utf16_copy_buf = std::make_unique<UTF16[]>(utf16.length()); // Twice as much memory than necessary.
+	auto utf16_copy = utf16_copy_buf.get();
+	memset(utf16_copy, 0, sizeof(UTF16) * utf16.length()); // needs to be set to 0, otherwhise we have uninitialized memory issues when utf16.length is odd.
 	memcpy(utf16_copy, utf16.begin(), utf16.length());
 
 	const char* utf16_copy_end = reinterpret_cast<const char*>(utf16_copy) + utf16.length();

src/util.cc

@@ -1799,7 +1799,10 @@ FILE* rotate_file(const char* name, RecordVal* rotate_info)
 	// Build file names.
 	const int buflen = strlen(name) + 128;
 
-	char newname[buflen], tmpname[buflen+4];
+	auto newname_buf = std::make_unique<char[]>(buflen);
+	auto tmpname_buf = std::make_unique<char[]>(buflen + 4);
+	auto newname = newname_buf.get();
+	auto tmpname = tmpname_buf.get();
 
 	snprintf(newname, buflen, "%s.%d.%.06f.tmp",
 			name, getpid(), network_time);

src/zeek.bif

@@ -2830,7 +2830,8 @@ function bytestring_to_hexstr%(bytestring: string%): string
 	%{
 	bro_uint_t len = bytestring->AsString()->Len();
 	const u_char* bytes = bytestring->AsString()->Bytes();
-	char hexstr[(2 * len) + 1];
+	auto hextr_buf = std::make_unique<char[]>((2 * len) + 1);
+	auto hexstr = hextr_buf.get();
 
 	hexstr[0] = 0;
 	for ( bro_uint_t i = 0; i < len; ++i )
@@ -2861,7 +2862,8 @@ function hexstr_to_bytestring%(hexstr: string%): string
 
 	const char* bytes = hexstr->AsString()->CheckString();
 	int outlen = (len/2);
-	char bytestring[outlen];
+	auto bytestring_buf = std::make_unique<char[]>(outlen);
+	auto bytestring = bytestring_buf.get();
 	memset(bytestring, 0, outlen);
 
 	for ( bro_uint_t i = 0; i < len/2; ++i )