From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:40:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched the
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Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched the
byte after the last full byte of the bit array, regardless of whether that
byte was part of the valid data or not.  Found by buildfarm testing.
Thanks to Stefan Kaltenbrunner for nailing down the cause.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
index 3126bd689cb..b6ab6bb1e7f 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c,v 1.54 2007/06/15 20:56:51 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c,v 1.55 2007/08/21 02:40:06 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -537,8 +537,9 @@ varbit_out(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	result = (char *) palloc(len + 1);
 	sp = VARBITS(s);
 	r = result;
-	for (i = 0; i < len - BITS_PER_BYTE; i += BITS_PER_BYTE, sp++)
+	for (i = 0; i <= len - BITS_PER_BYTE; i += BITS_PER_BYTE, sp++)
 	{
+		/* print full bytes */
 		x = *sp;
 		for (k = 0; k < BITS_PER_BYTE; k++)
 		{
@@ -546,11 +547,15 @@ varbit_out(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			x <<= 1;
 		}
 	}
-	x = *sp;
-	for (k = i; k < len; k++)
+	if (i < len)
 	{
-		*r++ = IS_HIGHBIT_SET(x) ? '1' : '0';
-		x <<= 1;
+		/* print the last partial byte */
+		x = *sp;
+		for (k = i; k < len; k++)
+		{
+			*r++ = IS_HIGHBIT_SET(x) ? '1' : '0';
+			x <<= 1;
+		}
 	}
 	*r = '\0';