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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:24:35 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: aboudreault@...gears.com, coley@...re.org, 523027@...s.debian.org,
warmerdam@...ox.com
Subject: incorrect upstream fix for CVE-2009-0840 (mapserver)
Hi,
from the CVE description:
| Heap-based buffer underflow in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in
| mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote
| attackers to have an unknown impact via a negative value in the Content-Length
| HTTP header.
The affected code is in cgiutil.c:
41 static char *readPostBody( cgiRequestObj *request )
42 {
43 char *data;
44 int data_max, data_len, chunk_size;
45
46 msIO_needBinaryStdin();
47
48 /* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
49 /* If the length is provided, read in one gulp. */
50 /* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
51 if( getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH") != NULL ) {
52 data_max = atoi(getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH"));
53 data = (char *) malloc(data_max+1);
54 if( data == NULL ) {
55 msIO_printf("Content-type: text/html%c%c",10,10);
56 msIO_printf("malloc() failed, Content-Length: %d unreasonably large?\n", data_max );
57 exit( 1 );
58 }
59
60 if( (int) msIO_fread(data, 1, data_max, stdin) < data_max ) {
There is obviously a problem in case the content-length is negative.
The following is the upstream patch which was used to "fix" this issue:
static char *readPostBody( cgiRequestObj *request )
{
char *data;
- int data_max, data_len, chunk_size;
+ unsigned int data_max, data_len;
+ int chunk_size;
Unfortunately this doesn't fix the issue and I wonder why people always think
changing signed types to unsigned will fix such errors.
If I pass 0xffffffff as the content-length according to type conversion rules
in C atoi() will convert this to -1 which is again converted to 0xffff when
assigning it to an unsigned int. data_max+1 in line 53 will then overflow and
malloc is called with a parameter of 0. This causes malloc to allocated the smallest
possible chunk but it will _not_ return NULL (well, implementation defined). So it
is still possible to perform a heap-based buffer overflow after the upstream
fix.
I'm not sure if this should get a new CVE id but the versions in the CVE id
description should be adjusted and the upstream patch revised.
Cheers
Nico
P.S. @Alan, this is also the reason I have to reject your packages in our
security queue again.
--
Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@...ber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA
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