Hi,
The getenv() library call can trap under certain conditions. It compares the
passed in environment variable name (var) with the name=variables (*ep) in the
environment area and returns a pointer to the value in the environment if it
exists. To accomplish this, it does a memcmp() using the length of the passed
in name (len) for each environment variable (*ep) against the passed in name
(var). So memcmp will attempt to scan both strings for len bytes. However, if
for some reason, len is equal to or greater than 16 and longer than the length
of the *ep in the environment and the *ep resides near the end of a page
boundary while the next page is not present or mapped, the memcmp could trap
with a sigsegv error while continuing the scan with the optimization
read-ahead. However, if strncmp is used instead, there is no problem since both
source and destination scanning will stop when either reaches a terminating NULL
Test case: We are using gcc 4.8.5 and uclibc 1.0.31. With a small environment
area, attempt to do a getenv() using a variable name such as
"1234567890123456". Example: file run.c contains:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char *n;
n = getenv("1234567890123456");
printf("Return val: \"%s\"\n", n);
return 0;
}
Then
<sh> cc run.c -o run
<sh> env -i 123=123 ./run.
Segmentation fault
Proposed fix:
--- uclibc/libc/stdlib/getenv.c 2019-11-13 17:22:26.260187664 -0500
+++ uclibc/libc/stdlib/getenv.c 2019-11-13 17:22:39.376111771 -0500
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
return NULL;
len = strlen(var);
while(*ep) {
- if (memcmp(var, *ep, len) == 0 && (*ep)[len] == '=') {
+ if (strncmp(var, *ep, len) == 0 && (*ep)[len] == '=') {
return *ep + len + 1;
}
ep++;
Then
<sh> env -i 123=123 ./run.
<sh>
Can we get this patch upstream?
Thanks,
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John Ata, CISSP
Senior Principal Software Engineer
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