[PATCH 2/8] erlc: prevent buffer overflows
Michael Santos
michael.santos@REDACTED
Sat Oct 2 01:55:17 CEST 2010
Check buffer operations and increase the size of the buffer used for
holding command line arguments, since the "-D" switch will be expanded
into 3 arguments when passed to erl.
---
erts/etc/common/Makefile.in | 2 +-
erts/etc/common/erlc.c | 12 +++++++++---
erts/test/erlc_SUITE.erl | 16 ++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/erts/etc/common/Makefile.in b/erts/etc/common/Makefile.in
index 333390b..fe7d7b4 100644
--- a/erts/etc/common/Makefile.in
+++ b/erts/etc/common/Makefile.in
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ $(OBJDIR)/$(ERLEXEC).o: $(ERLEXECDIR)/$(ERLEXEC).c
$(CC) -I$(EMUDIR) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $(ERLEXECDIR)/$(ERLEXEC).c
endif
$(BINDIR)/erlc@REDACTED@: $(OBJDIR)/erlc.o
- $(PURIFY) $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJDIR)/erlc.o -L$(OBJDIR) $(LIBS)
+ $(PURIFY) $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJDIR)/erlc.o -L$(OBJDIR) $(LIBS) $(ERTS_INTERNAL_LIBS)
$(OBJDIR)/erlc.o: erlc.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c erlc.c
diff --git a/erts/etc/common/erlc.c b/erts/etc/common/erlc.c
index 09aca19..b59453a 100644
--- a/erts/etc/common/erlc.c
+++ b/erts/etc/common/erlc.c
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
env = get_env("ERLC_EMULATOR");
emulator = env ? env : get_default_emulator(argv[0]);
+ if (strlen(emulator) >= MAXPATHLEN)
+ error("Value of environment variable ERLC_EMULATOR is too large");
+
/*
* Allocate the argv vector to be used for arguments to Erlang.
* Arrange for starting to pushing information in the middle of
@@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
* base of the eargv vector, and move it up later.
*/
- eargv_size = argc*4+100;
+ eargv_size = argc*6+100;
eargv_base = (char **) emalloc(eargv_size*sizeof(char*));
eargv = eargv_base;
eargc = 0;
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ process_opt(int* pArgc, char*** pArgv, int offset)
static void
push_words(char* src)
{
- char sbuf[1024];
+ char sbuf[MAXPATHLEN];
char* dst;
dst = sbuf;
@@ -595,7 +598,7 @@ error(char* format, ...)
va_list ap;
va_start(ap, format);
- vsprintf(sbuf, format, ap);
+ erts_vsnprintf(sbuf, sizeof(sbuf), format, ap);
va_end(ap);
fprintf(stderr, "erlc: %s\n", sbuf);
exit(1);
@@ -624,6 +627,9 @@ get_default_emulator(char* progname)
char sbuf[MAXPATHLEN];
char* s;
+ if (strlen(progname) >= sizeof(sbuf))
+ return ERL_NAME;
+
strcpy(sbuf, progname);
for (s = sbuf+strlen(sbuf); s >= sbuf; s--) {
if (IS_DIRSEP(*s)) {
diff --git a/erts/test/erlc_SUITE.erl b/erts/test/erlc_SUITE.erl
index 437f020..4797f78 100644
--- a/erts/test/erlc_SUITE.erl
+++ b/erts/test/erlc_SUITE.erl
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@
%% Tests the erlc command by compiling various types of files.
-export([all/1, compile_erl/1, compile_yecc/1, compile_script/1,
- compile_mib/1, good_citizen/1, deep_cwd/1]).
+ compile_mib/1, good_citizen/1, deep_cwd/1, arg_overflow/1]).
-include_lib("test_server/include/test_server.hrl").
all(suite) ->
[compile_erl, compile_yecc, compile_script, compile_mib,
- good_citizen, deep_cwd].
+ good_citizen, deep_cwd, arg_overflow].
%% Copy from erlc_SUITE_data/include/erl_test.hrl.
@@ -189,6 +189,18 @@ deep_cwd_1(PrivDir) ->
?line true = filelib:is_file("test.beam"),
ok.
+%% Test that a large number of command line switches does not
+%% overflow the argument buffer
+arg_overflow(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
+ ?line {SrcDir, _OutDir, Cmd} = get_cmd(Config),
+ ?line FileName = filename:join(SrcDir, "erl_test_ok.erl"),
+ ?line Args = lists:flatten([ ["-D", integer_to_list(N), "=1 "] ||
+ N <- lists:seq(1,10000) ]),
+ ?line run(Config, Cmd, FileName, Args,
+ ["Warning: function foo/0 is unused\$",
+ "_OK_"]),
+ ok.
+
erlc() ->
case os:find_executable("erlc") of
false ->
--
1.7.0.4
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