Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment variables when building file list.
$ cat usr/crash.list file foo ${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG} 0755 0 0 $ BIG=$(perl -e 'print "A" x 4096;') ./usr/gen_init_cpio usr/crash.list *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./usr/gen_init_cpio terminated This also replaces the space-indenting with tabs. Patch based on existing fix extracted from grsecurity. Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz> Cc: Brad Spengler <spen...@grsecurity.net> Cc: PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> --- usr/gen_init_cpio.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c index af0f22f..aca6edc 100644 --- a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c +++ b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int cpio_mkfile(const char *name, const char *location, int retval; int rc = -1; int namesize; - int i; + unsigned int i; mode |= S_IFREG; @@ -381,25 +381,28 @@ error: static char *cpio_replace_env(char *new_location) { - char expanded[PATH_MAX + 1]; - char env_var[PATH_MAX + 1]; - char *start; - char *end; - - for (start = NULL; (start = strstr(new_location, "${")); ) { - end = strchr(start, '}'); - if (start < end) { - *env_var = *expanded = '\0'; - strncat(env_var, start + 2, end - start - 2); - strncat(expanded, new_location, start - new_location); - strncat(expanded, getenv(env_var), PATH_MAX); - strncat(expanded, end + 1, PATH_MAX); - strncpy(new_location, expanded, PATH_MAX); - } else - break; - } - - return new_location; + char expanded[PATH_MAX + 1]; + char env_var[PATH_MAX + 1]; + char *start; + char *end; + + for (start = NULL; (start = strstr(new_location, "${")); ) { + end = strchr(start, '}'); + if (start < end) { + *env_var = *expanded = '\0'; + strncat(env_var, start + 2, end - start - 2); + strncat(expanded, new_location, start - new_location); + strncat(expanded, getenv(env_var), + PATH_MAX - strlen(expanded)); + strncat(expanded, end + 1, + PATH_MAX - strlen(expanded)); + strncpy(new_location, expanded, PATH_MAX); + new_location[PATH_MAX] = 0; + } else + break; + } + + return new_location; } -- 1.7.9.5 -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/