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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-03-29 12:57:56 +0200
committerGabriel F. T. Gomes <gftg@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-05-24 18:08:55 -0300
commit916ef0f69613613e11123657bff127bd26104630 (patch)
tree336643fe692894733c978233530139c7d3fcf362
parentafc4daae0411d10e5d64646d5bafb05075e16151 (diff)
downloadglibc-release/2.20/master.tar.gz
CVE-2016-3075: Stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r [BZ #19879]release/2.20/master
The defensive copy is not needed because the name may not alias the output buffer. (cherry picked from commit 317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4) (cherry picked from commit f5b3338d70a7a2c626331ac4589b6deb2f610432)
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c5
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3652d5f029..4b5cd019e1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2016-05-24 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
+ [BZ #19879]
+ CVE-2016-3075
+ * resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c (_nss_dns_getnetbyname_r): Do not
+ copy name.
+
2016-05-24 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
[BZ #17905]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e6a520774a..dc8679f8ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Version 2.20.1
called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
+* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
+ could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
+ overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
+
* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
diff --git a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
index 08cf0a6462..335604adc2 100644
--- a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
+++ b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
@@ -118,17 +118,14 @@ _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r (const char *name, struct netent *result,
} net_buffer;
querybuf *orig_net_buffer;
int anslen;
- char *qbuf;
enum nss_status status;
if (__res_maybe_init (&_res, 0) == -1)
return NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL;
- qbuf = strdupa (name);
-
net_buffer.buf = orig_net_buffer = (querybuf *) alloca (1024);
- anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, qbuf, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
+ anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, name, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
1024, &net_buffer.ptr, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
if (anslen < 0)
{