[Bug network/20964] New: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with RES_USE_INET6

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20964

            Bug ID: 20964
           Summary: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
                    RES_USE_INET6
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: network
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: fweimer at redhat dot com
  Target Milestone: ---
             Flags: security+

First seen in the libtirpc repository here:

commit 4a8abc724adc6a8ad0d577d51e87098b73c8f480
Author: ksourav <sourav.kir@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 17 16:01:29 2016 -0400

    getrpcport: Possible buffer overflow in memcpy

    The if condition, when true, can result in memcpy
    overflow as source sizecan become greater than the
    destination in memcpy. Modified the if condition
    to prevent memcoy overflow.

    Signed-off-by: ksourav <sourav.kir@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>

It's difficult to write a test case for the overflow as such.  I think the
function needs to fail if gethostbyname returns an unexpected address family,
or perhaps we should call getaddrinfo with AF_INET instead.

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