[PATCH 259/270] gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

3.5.7u1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

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 at chromium.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.cz>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender at grsecurity.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec at freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 usr/gen_init_cpio.c |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c
index af0f22f..aca6edc 100644
--- a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c
+++ b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int cpio_mkfile(const char *name, const char *location,
 	int retval;
 	int rc = -1;
 	int namesize;
-	int i;
+	unsigned int i;
 
 	mode |= S_IFREG;
 
@@ -381,25 +381,28 @@ error:
 
 static char *cpio_replace_env(char *new_location)
 {
-       char expanded[PATH_MAX + 1];
-       char env_var[PATH_MAX + 1];
-       char *start;
-       char *end;
-
-       for (start = NULL; (start = strstr(new_location, "${")); ) {
-               end = strchr(start, '}');
-               if (start < end) {
-                       *env_var = *expanded = '\0';
-                       strncat(env_var, start + 2, end - start - 2);
-                       strncat(expanded, new_location, start - new_location);
-                       strncat(expanded, getenv(env_var), PATH_MAX);
-                       strncat(expanded, end + 1, PATH_MAX);
-                       strncpy(new_location, expanded, PATH_MAX);
-               } else
-                       break;
-       }
-
-       return new_location;
+	char expanded[PATH_MAX + 1];
+	char env_var[PATH_MAX + 1];
+	char *start;
+	char *end;
+
+	for (start = NULL; (start = strstr(new_location, "${")); ) {
+		end = strchr(start, '}');
+		if (start < end) {
+			*env_var = *expanded = '\0';
+			strncat(env_var, start + 2, end - start - 2);
+			strncat(expanded, new_location, start - new_location);
+			strncat(expanded, getenv(env_var),
+				PATH_MAX - strlen(expanded));
+			strncat(expanded, end + 1,
+				PATH_MAX - strlen(expanded));
+			strncpy(new_location, expanded, PATH_MAX);
+			new_location[PATH_MAX] = 0;
+		} else
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return new_location;
 }
 
 
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