1. 31 Oct, 2012 1 commit
    • Kees Cook's avatar
      gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding · ed12438d
      Kees Cook authored
      commit 20f1de65 upstream.
      
      Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment
      variables when building file list.
      
      In the extremely unlikely case of an attacker having control over the
      environment variables visible to gen_init_cpio, control over the
      contents of the file gen_init_cpio parses, and gen_init_cpio was built
      without compiler hardening, the attacker can gain arbitrary execution
      control via a stack buffer overflow.
      
        $ 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.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
      Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      ed12438d
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