grep: fix for CVE-2012-5667

Multiple integer overflows in GNU Grep before 2.11 might allow
context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors
involving a long input line that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5667

(From OE-Core rev: 7dd4d0178e2b057f76cd2b0b6fe8402f8c1ab23d)

Signed-off-by: Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ming Liu 2013-05-15 05:56:50 +00:00 committed by Richard Purdie
parent 3f561e9b3e
commit 2a8265950f
2 changed files with 34 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
The patch to fix CVE-2012-5667
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=686605&action=diff
Multiple integer overflows in GNU Grep before 2.11 might allow
context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors
involving a long input line that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5667
Upstream-status: Inappropriate [other]
This version of GNU Grep has been abandoned upstream and they are no longer
accepting patches. This is not a backport.
Signed-off-by Ming Liu <ming.liu@windriver.com>
---
grep.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/src/grep.c 2013-05-15 13:39:33.359191769 +0800
+++ a/src/grep.c 2013-05-15 13:50:22.609191882 +0800
@@ -306,6 +306,11 @@ fillbuf (size_t save, struct stats const
int cc = 1;
char *readbuf;
size_t readsize;
+ const size_t max_save = INT_MAX / 2;
+
+ /* Limit the amount of saved data to INT_MAX to fix CVE-2012-5667 */
+ if (save > max_save)
+ error (2, 0, _("line too long"));
/* Offset from start of buffer to start of old stuff
that we want to save. */

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@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/grep/grep-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
file://gettext.patch \
file://fix64-int-to-pointer.patch \
file://Makevars \
"
file://grep-CVE-2012-5667.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "52202fe462770fa6be1bb667bd6cf30c"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "38c8a2bb9223d1fb1b10bdd607cf44830afc92fd451ac4cd07619bf92bdd3132"