gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:38:14 +0000 (13:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:37:53 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit20f1de659b77364d55d4e7fad2ef657e7730323f
tree397b5a643fbcdf6cbb5bf69fb5ead4160db3716b
parentfee0de7791f967c2c5f0d43eb7b7261761b45e64
gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding

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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
usr/gen_init_cpio.c