The buffer bug in nscd.

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> hjl@varesearch.com (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > Here is a patch for the out-of-buffer bug in nscd. Thorsten, could
> > you please double check other nscd functions?
> 
> This is completely unnecessary.  There is a test (line 150).
> 

That is very strange. In my glibc source code, starting from line 150:

      if (buflen < (align + (1 + gr_resp.gr_mem_cnt) * sizeof (char *)
                    + gr_resp.gr_name_len + gr_resp.gr_passwd_len))
        {
        no_room:
          __set_errno (ERANGE);
          __close (sock);
          return ERANGE;
        }
.....
     buflen -= align + (1 + gr_resp.gr_mem_cnt) * sizeof (char *);
.....
     total_len = gr_resp.gr_mem_cnt * sizeof (size_t);
.....
     total_len += gr_resp.gr_name_len + gr_resp.gr_passwd_len;
.....
     buflen -= total_len;

You tell me if there may be a buffer over-run. You may like this
patch.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
---
Index: nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /work/cvs/gnu/glibc-2.1/nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.14
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.14 nscd_getgr_r.c
--- nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c	1999/06/27 01:14:33	1.1.1.14
+++ nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c	1999/08/29 00:01:51
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ nscd_getgr_r (const char *key, size_t ke
       align = ((__alignof__ (char *) - (p - ((char *) 0)))
 	       & (__alignof__ (char *) - 1));
       if (buflen < (align + (1 + gr_resp.gr_mem_cnt) * sizeof (char *)
-		    + gr_resp.gr_name_len + gr_resp.gr_passwd_len))
+		    + gr_resp.gr_name_len + gr_resp.gr_passwd_len)
+		    + gr_resp.gr_mem_cnt * sizeof (size_t))
 	{
 	no_room:
 	  __set_errno (ERANGE);