Re: Run-Time Check Failure #2

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:56:53 -0500
Message-ID:
<asj3949uhl2jp6gaef09kcif4aacj8urrv@4ax.com>
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:43:01 +0530, "Manoj" <manojjangid@nath.com> wrote:

Hi I am getting this error

Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'tokenPrev' was
corrupted.

I am also paste the my code can anyone tell me how can I fix this problem ?
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOOL CnewAppDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
    HANDLE hToken = NULL;
    DWORD hTokenLength = 0;
     TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tokenPrev = {0};
     if(OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(),TOKEN_QUERY,&hToken))
     {
          if(!GetTokenInformation(hToken,TokenPrivileges,NULL,0,&hTokenLength))


Above, you're asking the function to return the required size of the
TOKEN_PRIVILEGES structure in bytes.

          {
               GetTokenInformation(hToken,TokenPrivileges,(LPVOID)&tokenPrev,hTokenLength,&hTokenLength);


Here, you're passing the returned size with a pointer to the original
tokenPrev, which is incorrect if the Privileges array has any size but 1.
You need to dynamically allocate a buffer hTokenLength bytes long and cast
it to TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, e.g.

std::vector<char> v(hTokenLength);
GetTokenInformation(hToken, TokenPrivileges, &v[0], hTokenLength,
      &hTokenLength);
TOKEN_PRIVILEGES* privs = reinterpret_cast<TOKEN_PRIVILEGES*>(&v[0]);

Now use privs instead of tokenPrev below.

               for(int nCount = 0; nCount < tokenPrev.PrivilegeCount;
nCount++)
               {
                    TCHAR szPath[_MAX_PATH] = _T("");
                    DWORD len = _MAX_PATH;
                    LookupPrivilegeName(NULL,&tokenPrev.Privileges[nCount].Luid,szPath,&len);
                    TRACE(szPath);
               }
          }
       }
     CloseHandle(hToken);
   }
   return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
}


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Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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