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gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:38:14 +0000 (13:38 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:51:33 +0000 (09:51 -0700)
commited12438d94ded9c028570776898418adbb497f58
treece92a47d837a94a5f72f172ed75443772385f103
parentd9ee258b13506301b6da6450cf7a1692826b471e
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
usr/gen_init_cpio.c