• New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for Synchronet

    From scan-admin@coverity.com@VERT to cov-scan@synchro.net on Thu Jul 23 12:50:43 2026
    Hi,

    Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to Synchronet found with Coverity Scan.

    1 new defect(s) introduced to Synchronet found with Coverity Scan.


    New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan
    Showing 1 of 1 defect(s)


    ** CID 651667: (INTEGER_OVERFLOW)
    /main.cpp: 2844 in output_thread(void *)()
    /main.cpp: 2806 in output_thread(void *)()


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    *** CID 651667: (INTEGER_OVERFLOW)
    /main.cpp: 2844 in output_thread(void *)()
    2838 int result = mqtt_pub_message(&mqtt, TOPIC_BBS, spy_topic, buf + bufbot, i, /* retain: */ false);
    2839 if (result != MQTT_SUCCESS)
    2840 lprintf(LOG_WARNING, "%s ERROR %d (%d) publishing node output (%u bytes): %s"
    2841 , node, result, errno, i, spy_topic);
    2842 }
    2843 if (spy_socket[sbbs->cfg.node_num - 1] != INVALID_SOCKET)
    CID 651667: (INTEGER_OVERFLOW)
    "i", which might have underflowed, is passed to "send(spy_socket[sbbs->cfg.node_num - 1], (char *)buf + bufbot, i, 0)".
    2844 if (sendsocket(spy_socket[sbbs->cfg.node_num - 1], (char*)buf + bufbot, i) != i && SOCKET_ERRNO != EPIPE)
    2845 errprintf(LOG_ERR, WHERE, "%s ERROR %d writing to spy socket", node, SOCKET_ERRNO);
    2846 #ifdef __unix__
    2847 if (uspy_socket[sbbs->cfg.node_num - 1] != INVALID_SOCKET)
    2848 if (sendsocket(uspy_socket[sbbs->cfg.node_num - 1], (char*)buf + bufbot, i) != i)
    2849 errprintf(LOG_ERR, WHERE, "%s ERROR %d writing to UNIX spy socket", node, SOCKET_ERRNO);
    /main.cpp: 2806 in output_thread(void *)()
    2800 }
    2801 }
    2802 pthread_mutex_unlock(&sbbs->ssh_mutex);
    2803 }
    2804 else
    2805 #endif
    CID 651667: (INTEGER_OVERFLOW)
    "sendbytes", which might have underflowed, is passed to "send(sbbs->client_socket.operator std::__atomic_base<int>::__int_type(), (char *)buf + bufbot, sendbytes, 0)".
    2806 i = sendsocket(sbbs->client_socket, (char*)buf + bufbot, sendbytes);
    2807 if (i == SOCKET_ERROR) {
    2808 SOCKET sock = sbbs->client_socket.load();
    2809 if (SOCKET_ERRNO == ENOTSOCK)
    2810 lprintf(LOG_NOTICE, "%04d %s [%s] client socket closed on send", sock, sbbs->client.protocol, sbbs->client_ipaddr);
    2811 else if (SOCKET_ERRNO == ECONNRESET)


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  • From scan-admin@coverity.com@VERT to cov-scan@synchro.net on Tue Jul 28 21:16:18 2026
    Hi,

    Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to Synchronet found with Coverity Scan.

    1 new defect(s) introduced to Synchronet found with Coverity Scan.
    1 defect(s), reported by Coverity Scan earlier, were marked fixed in the recent build analyzed by Coverity Scan.

    New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan
    Showing 1 of 1 defect(s)


    ** CID 651709: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK)
    /useredit.cpp: 108 in sbbs_t::useredit(int)()


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    *** CID 651709: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK)
    /useredit.cpp: 108 in sbbs_t::useredit(int)()
    102 if (user.comment[0] || i)
    103 bprintf(text[UeditCommentLine], i ? '+' : ' ' 104 , user.comment);
    105 else
    106 term->newline();
    107 if (localtime32(&user.laston, &tm) == NULL)
    CID 651709: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK)
    Variable "find_expr" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to. 108 return;
    109 bprintf(text[UserDates]
    110 , datestr(user.firston, str), datestr(user.expire, tmp)
    111 , datestr(user.laston, tmp2), tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min);
    112
    113 bprintf(text[UserTimes]


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