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Commit bc8e2043 authored by Alan Coopersmith's avatar Alan Coopersmith
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dix: integer overflow in GetHosts() [CVE-2014-8092 2/4]


GetHosts() iterates over all the hosts it has in memory, and copies
them to a buffer. The buffer length is calculated by iterating over
all the hosts and adding up all of their combined length. There is a
potential integer overflow, if there are lots and lots of hosts (with
a combined length of > ~4 gig). This should be possible by repeatedly
calling ProcChangeHosts() on 64bit machines with enough memory.

This patch caps the list at 1mb, because multi-megabyte hostname
lists for X access control are insane.

Reported-by: default avatarIlja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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...@@ -1296,6 +1296,10 @@ GetHosts(void **data, int *pnHosts, int *pLen, BOOL * pEnabled) ...@@ -1296,6 +1296,10 @@ GetHosts(void **data, int *pnHosts, int *pLen, BOOL * pEnabled)
for (host = validhosts; host; host = host->next) { for (host = validhosts; host; host = host->next) {
nHosts++; nHosts++;
n += pad_to_int32(host->len) + sizeof(xHostEntry); n += pad_to_int32(host->len) + sizeof(xHostEntry);
/* Could check for INT_MAX, but in reality having more than 1mb of
hostnames in the access list is ridiculous */
if (n >= 1048576)
break;
} }
if (n) { if (n) {
*data = ptr = malloc(n); *data = ptr = malloc(n);
...@@ -1304,6 +1308,8 @@ GetHosts(void **data, int *pnHosts, int *pLen, BOOL * pEnabled) ...@@ -1304,6 +1308,8 @@ GetHosts(void **data, int *pnHosts, int *pLen, BOOL * pEnabled)
} }
for (host = validhosts; host; host = host->next) { for (host = validhosts; host; host = host->next) {
len = host->len; len = host->len;
if ((ptr + sizeof(xHostEntry) + len) > (data + n))
break;
((xHostEntry *) ptr)->family = host->family; ((xHostEntry *) ptr)->family = host->family;
((xHostEntry *) ptr)->length = len; ((xHostEntry *) ptr)->length = len;
ptr += sizeof(xHostEntry); ptr += sizeof(xHostEntry);
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