From ee8d5e33adb284601c00c94687bc907e10aec9bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:28:36 +0530 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3