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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-4429.patch')
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1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-4429.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-4429.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5eebd10543 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-4429.patch @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +From bdce95930e1d9a7d013d1ba78740243491262879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> +Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:18:34 +0200 +Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2016-4429: sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call [BZ + #20112] + +The call is technically in a loop, and under certain circumstances +(which are quite difficult to reproduce in a test case), alloca +can be invoked repeatedly during a single call to clntudp_call. +As a result, the available stack space can be exhausted (even +though individual alloca sizes are bounded implicitly by what +can fit into a UDP packet, as a side effect of the earlier +successful send operation). + +(cherry picked from commit bc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c) +--- + ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ + NEWS | 4 ++++ + sunrpc/clnt_udp.c | 10 +++++++++- + 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c b/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c +index a6cf5f1..4d9acb1 100644 +--- a/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c ++++ b/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c +@@ -388,9 +388,15 @@ send_again: + struct sock_extended_err *e; + struct sockaddr_in err_addr; + struct iovec iov; +- char *cbuf = (char *) alloca (outlen + 256); ++ char *cbuf = malloc (outlen + 256); + int ret; + ++ if (cbuf == NULL) ++ { ++ cu->cu_error.re_errno = errno; ++ return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV); ++ } ++ + iov.iov_base = cbuf + 256; + iov.iov_len = outlen; + msg.msg_name = (void *) &err_addr; +@@ -415,10 +421,12 @@ send_again: + cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR (&msg, cmsg)) + if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_IP && cmsg->cmsg_type == IP_RECVERR) + { ++ free (cbuf); + e = (struct sock_extended_err *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg); + cu->cu_error.re_errno = e->ee_errno; + return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV); + } ++ free (cbuf); + } + #endif + do +-- +2.9.3 + |