[CVE-2017-0605][Vivid] tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Thu May 18 10:04:40 UTC 2017


On 17.05.2017 09:37, Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> From: Amey Telawane <ameyt at codeaurora.org>
> 
> Strcpy is inherently not safe, and strlcpy() should be used instead.
> __trace_find_cmdline() uses strcpy() because the comms saved must have a
> terminating nul character, but it doesn't hurt to add the extra protection
> of using strlcpy() instead of strcpy().

I Vivid is in the same state as Precise (meaning only high and critical).

-Stefan

> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493806274-13936-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amey Telawane <ameyt at codeaurora.org>
> [AmitP: Cherry-picked this commit from CodeAurora kernel/msm-3.10
> https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2161ae9a70b12cf18ac8e5952a20161ffbccb477]
> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir at linaro.org>
> [ Updated change log and removed the "- 1" from len parameter ]
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt at goodmis.org>
> (cherry picked from commit e09e28671cda63e6308b31798b997639120e2a21)
> CVE-2017-0605
> Signed-off-by: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin at canonical.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index bd3e6b1..8ec7b7b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ static void __trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[])
>  
>  	map = savedcmd->map_pid_to_cmdline[pid];
>  	if (map != NO_CMDLINE_MAP)
> -		strcpy(comm, get_saved_cmdlines(map));
> +		strlcpy(comm, get_saved_cmdlines(map), TASK_COMM_LEN);
>  	else
>  		strcpy(comm, "<...>");
>  }
> 


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