[2.26 COMMITTED] Check length of ifname before copying it into to ifreq structure.
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2018
From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@caviumnetworks.com>
[BZ #22442]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c (__if_nametoindex):
Check if ifname is too long.
(cherry picked from commit 2180fee114b778515b3f560e5ff1e795282e60b0)
2017-11-15 Steve Ellcey <sellcey@cavium.com>
[BZ #22442]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c (__if_nametoindex):
Check if ifname is too long.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index db43d87ee0..48d28e166a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[22299] x86-64: Don't set GLRO(dl_platform) to NULL
[22320] glob: Fix one-byte overflow (CVE-2017-15670)
[22321] sysconf: Fix missing definition of UIO_MAXIOV on Linux
+ [22442] if_nametoindex: Check length of ifname before copying it
[22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
[22325] glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
[22342] NSCD not properly caching netgroup
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c
index 8ba5eae781..a874634d52 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/if_index.c
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ __if_nametoindex (const char *ifname)
if (fd < 0)
return 0;
+ if (strlen (ifname) >= IFNAMSIZ)
+ {
+ __set_errno (ENODEV);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
strncpy (ifr.ifr_name, ifname, sizeof (ifr.ifr_name));
if (__ioctl (fd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr) < 0)
{
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