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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-05-23 20:18:34 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-05-23 20:18:34 +0200
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CVE-2016-4429: sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call [BZ #20112]
The call is technically in a loop, and under certain circumstances
(which are quite difficult to reproduce in a test case), alloca
can be invoked repeatedly during a single call to clntudp_call.
As a result, the available stack space can be exhausted (even
though individual alloca sizes are bounded implicitly by what
can fit into a UDP packet, as a side effect of the earlier
successful send operation).
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--sunrpc/clnt_udp.c10
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4455c6db7c..ab323b2d57 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 2016-05-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
+	CVE-2016-4429
+	[BZ #20112]
+	* sunrpc/clnt_udp.c (clntudp_call): Use malloc/free for the error
+	payload.
+
+2016-05-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
 	[BZ #20111]
 	* bits/sockaddr.h (_SS_SIZE): Define.
 	* bits/socket.h (_SS_SIZE): Remove.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b3fd3cc2ec..2341697c97 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ Security related changes:
   called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
   Reported by Alexander Cherepanov.  (CVE-2016-1234)
 
+* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
+  flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages.  Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
+  alloca plugin for GCC.  (CVE-2016-4429)
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by
diff --git a/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c b/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c
index a6cf5f1ca7..4d9acb1e6a 100644
--- a/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c
+++ b/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c
@@ -388,9 +388,15 @@ send_again:
 	  struct sock_extended_err *e;
 	  struct sockaddr_in err_addr;
 	  struct iovec iov;
-	  char *cbuf = (char *) alloca (outlen + 256);
+	  char *cbuf = malloc (outlen + 256);
 	  int ret;
 
+	  if (cbuf == NULL)
+	    {
+	      cu->cu_error.re_errno = errno;
+	      return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV);
+	    }
+
 	  iov.iov_base = cbuf + 256;
 	  iov.iov_len = outlen;
 	  msg.msg_name = (void *) &err_addr;
@@ -415,10 +421,12 @@ send_again:
 		 cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR (&msg, cmsg))
 	      if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_IP && cmsg->cmsg_type == IP_RECVERR)
 		{
+		  free (cbuf);
 		  e = (struct sock_extended_err *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
 		  cu->cu_error.re_errno = e->ee_errno;
 		  return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV);
 		}
+	  free (cbuf);
 	}
 #endif
       do