getcwd: Set errno to ERANGE for size == 1 (CVE-2021-3999) siddhesh/realpath-and-getcwd

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.

Signed-off-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4c392a445e..07e9eac52d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ Security related changes:
   function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
   uninitialized memory.  Reported by Qualys.
 
+  CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
+  function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
+  when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
+  corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
+  namespace.  Reported by Qualys.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
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