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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2022-01-13 11:28:36 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2022-01-21 23:01:30 +0530
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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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@@ -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