[PATCH 1/2] fix gsn_restart file buffer overflow and missing path sep

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Neels Hofmeyr nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de
Fri Sep 30 23:10:46 UTC 2016


Fix errors during gsn_restart file path composition:

- possible buffer overflow because the wrong remaining length was fed to
  strncat().
- missing path separator: put restart file in dir/gsn_restart instead of
  ../dirgsn_restart.

This assumes that the path separator is '/'.

Use talloc_asprintf() to fix all filename length problems and shorten the code.

In order to free the allocated path, add a free_filename label, and jump there
instead of returning from the fopen("w") failure branch. Also don't return from
"fclose failed" branch in order to free the path, remove the if {} braces.

Remove the NAMESIZE constant that is now unused.
---
 gtp/gtp.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 gtp/gtp.h |  1 -
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gtp/gtp.c b/gtp/gtp.c
index 12cb492..161a6f0 100644
--- a/gtp/gtp.c
+++ b/gtp/gtp.c
@@ -646,13 +646,11 @@ static void log_restart(struct gsn_t *gsn)
 	FILE *f;
 	int i, rc;
 	int counter = 0;
-	char filename[NAMESIZE];
-
-	filename[NAMESIZE - 1] = 0;	/* No null term. guarantee by strncpy */
-	strncpy(filename, gsn->statedir, NAMESIZE - 1);
-	strncat(filename, RESTART_FILE, NAMESIZE - 1 - sizeof(RESTART_FILE));
-
+	char *filename;
+	
 	i = umask(022);
+	filename = talloc_asprintf(NULL, "%s/%s", gsn->statedir, RESTART_FILE);
+	OSMO_ASSERT(filename);
 
 	/* We try to open file. On failure we will later try to create file */
 	if (!(f = fopen(filename, "r"))) {
@@ -680,17 +678,17 @@ static void log_restart(struct gsn_t *gsn)
 		LOGP(DLGTP, LOGL_ERROR,
 			"fopen(path=%s, mode=%s) failed: Error = %s\n", filename,
 			"w", strerror(errno));
-		return;
+		goto free_filename;
 	}
 
 	umask(i);
 	fprintf(f, "%d\n", gsn->restart_counter);
 close_file:
-	if (fclose(f)) {
+	if (fclose(f))
 		LOGP(DLGTP, LOGL_ERROR,
 			"fclose failed: Error = %s\n", strerror(errno));
-		return;
-	}
+free_filename:
+	talloc_free(filename);
 }
 
 int gtp_new(struct gsn_t **gsn, char *statedir, struct in_addr *listen,
diff --git a/gtp/gtp.h b/gtp/gtp.h
index 539e255..1434e1e 100644
--- a/gtp/gtp.h
+++ b/gtp/gtp.h
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #define ERRMSG_SIZE 255
 
 #define RESTART_FILE "gsn_restart"
-#define NAMESIZE 1024
 
 /* GTP version 1 extension header type definitions. */
 #define GTP_EXT_PDCP_PDU    0xC0	/* PDCP PDU Number */
-- 
2.1.4




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