xterm: Security fix for CVE-2021-27135

Source: Debian.org
MR: 108848
Type: Security Fix
Disposition: Backport from https://sources.debian.org/data/main/x/xterm/344-1%2Bdeb10u1/debian/patches/CVE-2021-27135.diff
ChangeID: 00f53def87b8b95e62908581f8fb56a69118dd32
Description:

xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

This fixes CVE-2021-27135.
Leverage a patch from Debian.

Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
This commit is contained in:
Armin Kuster 2021-08-22 11:56:47 -07:00
parent 4a0d93d250
commit 0fc9d446d1
2 changed files with 69 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
Description: Fix for CVE-2021-27135 from xterm 366
Correct upper-limit for selection buffer, accounting for
combining characters (report by Tavis Ormandy).
Upstream-Status: Backport
https://sources.debian.org/data/main/x/xterm/344-1%2Bdeb10u1/debian/patches/CVE-2021-27135.diff
CVE: CVE-2021-27135
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
---
button.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: xterm-353/button.c
===================================================================
--- xterm-353.orig/button.c
+++ xterm-353/button.c
@@ -3928,6 +3928,7 @@ SaltTextAway(XtermWidget xw,
int i;
int eol;
int need = 0;
+ size_t have = 0;
Char *line;
Char *lp;
CELL first = *cellc;
@@ -3962,7 +3963,11 @@ SaltTextAway(XtermWidget xw,
/* UTF-8 may require more space */
if_OPT_WIDE_CHARS(screen, {
- need *= 4;
+ if (need > 0) {
+ if (screen->max_combining > 0)
+ need += screen->max_combining;
+ need *= 6;
+ }
});
/* now get some memory to save it in */
@@ -4000,10 +4005,26 @@ SaltTextAway(XtermWidget xw,
}
*lp = '\0'; /* make sure we have end marked */
- TRACE(("Salted TEXT:%u:%s\n", (unsigned) (lp - line),
- visibleChars(line, (unsigned) (lp - line))));
+ have = (size_t) (lp - line);
+ /*
+ * Scanning the buffer twice is unnecessary. Discard unwanted memory if
+ * the estimate is too-far off.
+ */
+ if ((have * 2) < (size_t) need) {
+ Char *next;
+ scp->data_limit = have + 1;
+ next = realloc(line, scp->data_limit);
+ if (next == NULL) {
+ free(line);
+ scp->data_length = 0;
+ scp->data_limit = 0;
+ }
+ scp->data_buffer = next;
+ }
+ scp->data_length = have;
- scp->data_length = (size_t) (lp - line);
+ TRACE(("Salted TEXT:%u:%s\n", (unsigned) have,
+ visibleChars(scp->data_buffer, (unsigned) have)));
}
#if OPT_PASTE64

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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://xterm.h;beginline=3;endline=31;md5=996b1ce0584c0747b1
SRC_URI = "http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/${BPN}/${BP}.tgz \
file://0001-Add-configure-time-check-for-setsid.patch \
file://CVE-2021-27135.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "247c30ebfa44623f3a2d100e0cae5c7f"