linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH] gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:33:02 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:57:56 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment
>> variables when building file list.
>>
>> $ cat usr/crash.list
>> file foo ${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG} 0755 0 0
>> $ BIG=$(perl -e 'print "A" x 4096;') ./usr/gen_init_cpio usr/crash.list
>> *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./usr/gen_init_cpio terminated
>>
>> This also replaces the space-indenting with tabs.
>>
>> Patch based on existing fix extracted from grsecurity.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>
> Why did you feel we need to backport this to -stable?

It's an extremely hard to hit security issue, but it's a security fix
regardless. I won't cry if it doesn't go to stable, but it seems a
trivial fix, so I included it for stable.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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