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authorGuillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>2021-10-12 16:43:40 +0200
committerGuillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>2021-10-13 14:15:14 +0200
commitc1ea1a94c33035a5aec413617d502884647af628 (patch)
tree20e8fbfa3465a2318feafdee7bad3acdb1046d69 /gnu/packages/patches
parent038dec75e75b6ca4abbca486b723a39664db4036 (diff)
gnu: libhx: Fix runtime bug.
There is a bug in libhx causing pam-mount to crash when trying to mount user directories at login. Upstream has a patch to fix this issue. * gnu/packages/patches/libhx-fix-double-free-bug.patch: New file. * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it. * gnu/packages/c.scm (libhx)[source]: Use it.
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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/libhx-fix-double-free-bug.patch80
1 files changed, 80 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libhx-fix-double-free-bug.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/libhx-fix-double-free-bug.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..80c2c6ca84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libhx-fix-double-free-bug.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+From a08eabc6e5a3e0a9c7a15ca15ff7d450ecb6db88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:32:43 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] io: fix a use-after-free in conjunction with HX_realpath
+
+HX_readlink(&x, ...) forgot to set x to nullptr upon error, which
+trips up subsequent calls to HX_readlink with the very same x.
+
+Fixes: v3.26-1-g97f4be2
+---
+ src/io.c | 8 ++++++--
+ src/tc-realpath.c | 10 ++++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/io.c b/src/io.c
+index 95d6fd6..14078fc 100644
+--- a/src/io.c
++++ b/src/io.c
+@@ -316,8 +316,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL int HX_readlink(hxmc_t **target, const char *path)
+ ssize_t ret = readlink(path, *target, linkbuf_size);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ int saved_errno = errno;
+- if (allocate)
++ if (allocate) {
+ HXmc_free(*target);
++ *target = nullptr;
++ }
+ return -(errno = saved_errno);
+ }
+ if (static_cast(size_t, ret) < linkbuf_size) {
+@@ -327,8 +329,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL int HX_readlink(hxmc_t **target, const char *path)
+ linkbuf_size *= 2;
+ if (HXmc_setlen(target, linkbuf_size) == NULL) {
+ int saved_errno = errno;
+- if (allocate)
++ if (allocate) {
+ HXmc_free(*target);
++ *target = nullptr;
++ }
+ return -(errno = saved_errno);
+ }
+ }
+diff --git a/src/tc-realpath.c b/src/tc-realpath.c
+index 5dd9aa2..c2ef15a 100644
+--- a/src/tc-realpath.c
++++ b/src/tc-realpath.c
+@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <libHX/io.h>
+ #include <libHX/option.h>
++#include <libHX/string.h>
+
+ static unsigned int rp_flags;
+ static unsigned int rp_absolute;
+@@ -42,6 +43,14 @@ static bool rp_get_options(int *argc, const char ***argv)
+ return true;
+ }
+
++static void t_1(void)
++{
++ hxmc_t *tmp = HXmc_strinit("");
++ /* two components, so that HX_readlink gets called twice */
++ HX_realpath(&tmp, "/dev/tty", HX_REALPATH_DEFAULT);
++ HXmc_free(tmp);
++}
++
+ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
+ {
+ hxmc_t *res;
+@@ -49,6 +58,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
+
+ if (!rp_get_options(&argc, &argv))
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;
++ t_1();
+
+ res = NULL;
+ while (--argc > 0) {
+--
+2.33.0
+