gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:38:14 +0000 (13:38 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:27:07 +0000 (23:27 +0000)
commit4253a4a1c331f534be64365524e88f317c7f0824
treec317fed7005a22a7194f7f2c8780a0066878623f
parent4b77f431a837ebaf54757083425a9ce38dab5488
gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding

commit 20f1de659b77364d55d4e7fad2ef657e7730323f 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: Kees 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
usr/gen_init_cpio.c