netdev - [PATCH] ip: fix UB in strncpy (e.g. truncated ip route output)

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:26:31 +0000
From:   Sam James <sam@...too.org>
To:     sam@...too.org
Cc:     dwfreed@....edu, freswa@...hlinux.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, toolchain@...too.org
Subject: [PATCH] ip: fix UB in strncpy (e.g. truncated ip route output)

Fix overlapping buffers passed to strncpy which is UB. format_host_rta_r writes
to the buffer passed to it, so hostname (derived from b1) & b1 partly overlap.

This gets worse with sys-libs/glibc-2.37 where the ip route output can be truncated,
but it was UB anyway and you can see it occurring w/ glibc-2.36.

Bug: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/0011AC38-4823-4D0A-8580-B108D08959C2@gentoo.org/T/#u
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30112
Thanks-to: Doug Freed <dwfreed@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
---
 ip/iproute.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c
index 0bab0fdf..a7cd9543 100644
--- a/ip/iproute.c
+++ b/ip/iproute.c
@@ -748,6 +748,7 @@ int print_route(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
 	int ret;
 
 	SPRINT_BUF(b1);
+	SPRINT_BUF(b2);
 
 	if (n->nlmsg_type != RTM_NEWROUTE && n->nlmsg_type != RTM_DELROUTE) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Not a route: %08x %08x %08x\n",
@@ -809,7 +810,7 @@ int print_route(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
 				 r->rtm_dst_len);
 		} else {
 			const char *hostname = format_host_rta_r(family, tb[RTA_DST],
-					  b1, sizeof(b1));
+					  b2, sizeof(b2));
 			if (hostname)
 				strncpy(b1, hostname, sizeof(b1) - 1);
 		}
@@ -832,7 +833,7 @@ int print_route(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
 				 r->rtm_src_len);
 		} else {
 			const char *hostname = format_host_rta_r(family, tb[RTA_SRC],
-					  b1, sizeof(b1));
+					  b2, sizeof(b2));
 			if (hostname)
 				strncpy(b1, hostname, sizeof(b1) - 1);
 		}
-- 
2.39.1