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authorStefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>2018-09-06 14:27:03 +0200
committerStefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>2018-09-10 14:22:52 +0200
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Fix segfault in maybe_script_execute.
If glibc is built with gcc 8 and -march=z900,
the testcase posix/tst-spawn4-compat crashes with a segfault.

In function maybe_script_execute, the new_argv array is dynamically
initialized on stack with (argc + 1) elements.
The function wants to add _PATH_BSHELL as the first argument
and writes out of bounds of new_argv.
There is an off-by-one because maybe_script_execute fails to count
the terminating NULL when sizing new_argv.

ChangeLog:

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c (maybe_script_execute):
	Increment size of new_argv by one.

(cherry picked from commit 28669f86f6780a18daca264f32d66b1428c9c6f1)
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 94b8718365..d9e7e6f1d8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-09-06  Stefan Liebler  <stli@linux.ibm.com>
+
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c (maybe_script_execute):
+	Increment size of new_argv by one.
+
 2018-08-28  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
 	[BZ #23578]
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c
index cf0213ece5..85239cedbf 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ maybe_script_execute (struct posix_spawn_args *args)
       ptrdiff_t argc = args->argc;
 
       /* Construct an argument list for the shell.  */
-      char *new_argv[argc + 1];
+      char *new_argv[argc + 2];
       new_argv[0] = (char *) _PATH_BSHELL;
       new_argv[1] = (char *) args->file;
       if (argc > 1)