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From 66c2480d02672c761953a8f9834b4f25c2ed7064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:32:56 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] getcwd: Set errno to ERANGE for size == 1 (CVE-2021-3999)
No valid path returned by getcwd would fit into 1 byte, so reject the
size early and return NULL with errno set to ERANGE. This change is
prompted by CVE-2021-3999, which describes a single byte buffer
underflow and overflow when all of the following conditions are met:
- The buffer size (i.e. the second argument of getcwd) is 1 byte
- The current working directory is too long
- '/' is also mounted on the current working directory
Sequence of events:
- In sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c, the syscall returns ENAMETOOLONG
because the linux kernel checks for name length before it checks
buffer size
- The code falls back to the generic getcwd in sysdeps/posix
- In the generic func, the buf[0] is set to '\0' on line 250
- this while loop on line 262 is bypassed:
while (!(thisdev == rootdev && thisino == rootino))
since the rootfs (/) is bind mounted onto the directory and the flow
goes on to line 449, where it puts a '/' in the byte before the
buffer.
- Finally on line 458, it moves 2 bytes (the underflowed byte and the
'\0') to the buf[0] and buf[1], resulting in a 1 byte buffer overflow.
- buf is returned on line 469 and errno is not set.
This resolves BZ #28769.
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
---
sysdeps/posix/getcwd.c | 8 +
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getcwd.c b/sysdeps/posix/getcwd.c
index b53433a2dc..154b9846a5 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/getcwd.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/getcwd.c
@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size)
char *path;
#ifndef NO_ALLOCATION
size_t allocated = size;
+
+ /* A size of 1 byte is never useful. */
+ if (allocated == 1)
+ {
+ __set_errno (ERANGE);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
if (size == 0)
{
if (buf != NULL)
--
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