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sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call

CVE-2016-4429:
The call is technically in a loop, and under certain circumstances
(which are quite difficult to reproduce in a test case), alloca
can be invoked repeatedly during a single call to clntudp_call.
As a result, the available stack space can be exhausted (even
though individual alloca sizes are bounded implicitly by what
can fit into a UDP packet, as a side effect of the earlier
successful send operation).

From GNU libc:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=bc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c
Waldemar Brodkorb 7 years ago
parent
commit
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1 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 9 1
      libc/inet/rpc/clnt_udp.c

+ 9 - 1
libc/inet/rpc/clnt_udp.c

@@ -368,9 +368,15 @@ send_again:
 	  struct sock_extended_err *e;
 	  struct sockaddr_in err_addr;
 	  struct iovec iov;
-	  char *cbuf = (char *) alloca (outlen + 256);
+	  char *cbuf = malloc (outlen + 256);
 	  int ret;
 
+	  if (cbuf == NULL)
+	    {
+	      cu->cu_error.re_errno = errno;
+	      return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV);
+	    }
+
 	  iov.iov_base = cbuf + 256;
 	  iov.iov_len = outlen;
 	  msg.msg_name = (void *) &err_addr;
@@ -395,10 +401,12 @@ send_again:
 		 cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR (&msg, cmsg))
 	      if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_IP && cmsg->cmsg_type == IP_RECVERR)
 		{
+		  free (cbuf);
 		  e = (struct sock_extended_err *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
 		  cu->cu_error.re_errno = e->ee_errno;
 		  return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV);
 		}
+	  free (cbuf);
 	}
 #endif
       do