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| author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2022-01-13 11:28:36 +0530 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2022-01-21 23:01:30 +0530 |
| commit | ee8d5e33adb284601c00c94687bc907e10aec9bb (patch) | |
| tree | c1e3b5584266640b915abcbd151032935b9695fb /NEWS | |
| parent | fb7bff12e81c677a6622f724edd4d4987dd9d971 (diff) | |
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realpath: Set errno to ENAMETOOLONG for result larger than PATH_MAX [BZ #28770]
realpath returns an allocated string when the result exceeds PATH_MAX, which is unexpected when its second argument is not NULL. This results in the second argument (resolved) being uninitialized and also results in a memory leak since the caller expects resolved to be the same as the returned value. Return NULL and set errno to ENAMETOOLONG if the result exceeds PATH_MAX. This fixes [BZ #28770], which is CVE-2021-3998. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6ed9fa9787..4c392a445e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ Security related changes: CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow. + CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath + function could result in a memory leak and potential access of + uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys. + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [The release manager will add the list generated by |