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| author | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2017-03-24 15:06:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2017-04-03 23:53:10 +0200 |
| commit | 8dcc4bf791469a32c3a09ebcc23b309bf75c795f (patch) | |
| tree | e739905ff902cfcc7ea8250ccdfb9fe78e34537c /libelf | |
| parent | b0b58c5e0b34e54194aa042f2310af58ee7de603 (diff) | |
| download | elfutils-8dcc4bf791469a32c3a09ebcc23b309bf75c795f.tar.gz | |
libelf: Check compression ratio before trying to allocate output buffer.
The maximum compression factor (http://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html) is
1032:1. Add a sanity check for that before trying to allocate lots of
memory and trying to decompress lots of bogus data.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21301
Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libelf')
| -rw-r--r-- | libelf/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | libelf/elf_compress.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libelf/ChangeLog b/libelf/ChangeLog index 8539cb56..35e5271d 100644 --- a/libelf/ChangeLog +++ b/libelf/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2017-03-24 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> + + * elf_compress.c (__libelf_decompress): Check insane compression + ratios before trying to allocate output buffer. + 2016-10-11 Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki.4i@stu.hosei.ac.jp> Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> diff --git a/libelf/elf_compress.c b/libelf/elf_compress.c index dac0ac6d..711be591 100644 --- a/libelf/elf_compress.c +++ b/libelf/elf_compress.c @@ -211,6 +211,15 @@ void * internal_function __libelf_decompress (void *buf_in, size_t size_in, size_t size_out) { + /* Catch highly unlikely compression ratios so we don't allocate + some giant amount of memory for nothing. The max compression + factor 1032:1 comes from http://www.zlib.net/zlib_tech.html */ + if (unlikely (size_out / 1032 > size_in)) + { + __libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_INVALID_DATA); + return NULL; + } + void *buf_out = malloc (size_out); if (unlikely (buf_out == NULL)) { |