LoadIniSettingsFromDisk: fix out-of-bounds read when file is empty #5351
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When the ini file has zero length,
LoadIniSettingsFromDisk
passes 0 asini_size
toLoadIniSettingsFromMemory
. However,LoadIniSettingsFromMemory
understands it as "detect ini size" and promptly runsstrlen
on the buffer. Here, the buffer is zero-sized, sostrlen
reads out-of-bounds, trying to find the null terminator in vain.The solution is to just not call
LoadIniSettingsFromMemory
when there is nothing to parse anyway.Example ASan error: