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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-CVE-2014-3970.patch')
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1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-CVE-2014-3970.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-CVE-2014-3970.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..073e663112 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/pulseaudio-CVE-2014-3970.patch @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +From 26b9d22dd24c17eb118d0205bf7b02b75d435e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com> +Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 22:29:25 +0600 +Subject: [PATCH] rtp-recv: fix crash on empty UDP packets (CVE-2014-3970) + +On FIONREAD returning 0 bytes, we cannot return success, as the caller +(rtpoll_work_cb in module-rtp-recv.c) would then try to +pa_memblock_unref(chunk.memblock) and, because memblock is NULL, trigger +an assertion. + +Also we have to read out the possible empty packet from the socket, so +that the kernel doesn't tell us again and again about it. + +Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> +--- + src/modules/rtp/rtp.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- + 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/src/modules/rtp/rtp.c b/src/modules/rtp/rtp.c +index 570737e..7b75e0e 100644 +--- a/src/modules/rtp/rtp.c ++++ b/src/modules/rtp/rtp.c +@@ -182,8 +182,29 @@ int pa_rtp_recv(pa_rtp_context *c, pa_memchunk *chunk, pa_mempool *pool, struct + goto fail; + } + +- if (size <= 0) +- return 0; ++ if (size <= 0) { ++ /* size can be 0 due to any of the following reasons: ++ * ++ * 1. Somebody sent us a perfectly valid zero-length UDP packet. ++ * 2. Somebody sent us a UDP packet with a bad CRC. ++ * ++ * It is unknown whether size can actually be less than zero. ++ * ++ * In the first case, the packet has to be read out, otherwise the ++ * kernel will tell us again and again about it, thus preventing ++ * reception of any further packets. So let's just read it out ++ * now and discard it later, when comparing the number of bytes ++ * received (0) with the number of bytes wanted (1, see below). ++ * ++ * In the second case, recvmsg() will fail, thus allowing us to ++ * return the error. ++ * ++ * Just to avoid passing zero-sized memchunks and NULL pointers to ++ * recvmsg(), let's force allocation of at least one byte by setting ++ * size to 1. ++ */ ++ size = 1; ++ } + + if (c->memchunk.length < (unsigned) size) { + size_t l; +-- +2.0.0 + |