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Andrew Geissler6aa7eec2023-03-03 12:41:14 -06001From 3da78400eafcccb97e2f2fd4b227ea40d794ede8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
3Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:57:39 +0200
4Subject: Fix boundary checking in base-256 decoder
5
6* src/list.c (from_header): Base-256 encoding is at least 2 bytes
7long.
8
9Upstream-Status: Backport [see reference below]
10CVE: CVE-2022-48303
11
12Reference to upstream patch:
13https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62387
14https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/patch/src/list.c?id=3da78400eafcccb97e2f2fd4b227ea40d794ede8
15
16Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Quesada Zumbado <rodolfo.zumbado@windriver.com>
17Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <joe.slater@windriver.com>
18---
19 src/list.c | 5 +++--
20 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Quesada Zumbado <rodolfo.zumbado@windriver.com>
21
22
23(limited to 'src/list.c')
24
25diff --git a/src/list.c b/src/list.c
26index 9fafc42..86bcfdd 100644
27--- a/src/list.c
28+++ b/src/list.c
29@@ -881,8 +881,9 @@ from_header (char const *where0, size_t digs, char const *type,
30 where++;
31 }
32 }
33- else if (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
34- || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */)
35+ else if (where <= lim - 2
36+ && (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
37+ || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */))
38 {
39 /* Parse base-256 output. A nonnegative number N is
40 represented as (256**DIGS)/2 + N; a negative number -N is
41--
42cgit v1.1
43