#if defined(HAVE_PCRE) && defined(HAVE_HIVEX)
+/* Some limits on what we will read, for safety. */
+
+/* Small text configuration files.
+ *
+ * The upper limit is for general files that we grep or download. The
+ * largest such file is probably "txtsetup.sif" from Windows CDs
+ * (~500K). This number has to be larger than any legitimate file and
+ * smaller than the protocol message size.
+ *
+ * The lower limit is for files parsed by Augeas on the daemon side,
+ * where Augeas is running in reduced memory and can potentially
+ * create a lot of metadata so we really need to be careful about
+ * those.
+ */
+#define MAX_SMALL_FILE_SIZE (2 * 1000 * 1000)
+#define MAX_AUGEAS_FILE_SIZE (100 * 1000)
+
+/* Maximum Windows Registry hive that we will download to /tmp. Some
+ * registries can be legitimately very large.
+ */
+#define MAX_REGISTRY_SIZE (100 * 1000 * 1000)
+
+/* Maximum RPM or dpkg database we will download to /tmp. */
+#define MAX_PKG_DB_SIZE (10 * 1000 * 1000)
+
/* Compile all the regular expressions once when the shared library is
* loaded. PCRE is thread safe so we're supposedly OK here if
* multiple threads call into the libguestfs API functions below
if (size == -1)
/* guestfs_filesize failed and has already set error in handle */
return -1;
- if (size > 1000000) {
+ if (size > MAX_SMALL_FILE_SIZE) {
error (g, _("size of %s is unreasonably large (%" PRIi64 " bytes)"),
filename, size);
return -1;
if (size == -1)
/* guestfs_filesize failed and has already set error in handle */
return -1;
- if (size > 1000000) {
+ if (size > MAX_SMALL_FILE_SIZE) {
error (g, _("size of %s is unreasonably large (%" PRIi64 " bytes)"),
filename, size);
return -1;
hive_h *h = NULL;
hive_value_h *values = NULL;
- if (download_to_tmp (g, software_path, software_local, 100000000) == -1)
+ if (download_to_tmp (g, software_path, software_local,
+ MAX_REGISTRY_SIZE) == -1)
goto out;
h = hivex_open (software_local, g->verbose ? HIVEX_OPEN_VERBOSE : 0);
hive_h *h = NULL;
hive_value_h *values = NULL;
- if (download_to_tmp (g, system_path, system_local, 100000000) == -1)
+ if (download_to_tmp (g, system_path, system_local, MAX_REGISTRY_SIZE) == -1)
goto out;
h = hivex_open (system_local, g->verbose ? HIVEX_OPEN_VERBOSE : 0);
{
TMP_TEMPLATE_ON_STACK (tmpfile);
- if (download_to_tmp (g, "/var/lib/rpm/Name", tmpfile, 10000000) == -1)
+ if (download_to_tmp (g, "/var/lib/rpm/Name", tmpfile, MAX_PKG_DB_SIZE) == -1)
return NULL;
struct guestfs_application_list *apps = NULL, *ret = NULL;
{
TMP_TEMPLATE_ON_STACK (tmpfile);
- if (download_to_tmp (g, "/var/lib/dpkg/status", tmpfile, 10000000) == -1)
+ if (download_to_tmp (g, "/var/lib/dpkg/status", tmpfile,
+ MAX_PKG_DB_SIZE) == -1)
return NULL;
struct guestfs_application_list *apps = NULL, *ret = NULL;
hive_h *h = NULL;
hive_node_h *children = NULL;
- if (download_to_tmp (g, software_path, software_local, 100000000) == -1)
+ if (download_to_tmp (g, software_path, software_local,
+ MAX_REGISTRY_SIZE) == -1)
goto out;
h = hivex_open (software_local, g->verbose ? HIVEX_OPEN_VERBOSE : 0);
if (size == -1)
/* guestfs_filesize failed and has already set error in handle */
return -1;
- if (size > 100000) {
+ if (size > MAX_AUGEAS_FILE_SIZE) {
error (g, _("size of %s is unreasonably large (%" PRIi64 " bytes)"),
filename, size);
return -1;
if (size == -1)
/* guestfs_filesize failed and has already set error in handle */
return NULL;
- if (size > 1000000) {
+ if (size > MAX_SMALL_FILE_SIZE) {
error (g, _("size of %s is unreasonably large (%" PRIi64 " bytes)"),
filename, size);
return NULL;