Fix use-after-free in json_tokener_new_ex() #722
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The failure path taken in the event of printbuf_new() returning NULL calls free() on tok->stack after already having freed tok. Swap the order of the two calls to fix an obvious memory access violation. Fixes: bcb6d7d ("Handle allocation failure in json_tokener_new_ex") Signed-off-by: Juuso Alasuutari <juuso.alasuutari@gmail.com>
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The failure path taken in the event of printbuf_new() returning NULL
calls free() on tok->stack after already having freed tok. Swap the
order of the two calls to fix an obvious memory access violation.
Fixes: bcb6d7d ("Handle allocation failure in json_tokener_new_ex")
Signed-off-by: Juuso Alasuutari juuso.alasuutari@gmail.com