Slightly edited: Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat, discovered a buffer overflow in texinfo. The testcase and a patch are attached. The testcase will crash when texi2dvi is run on the demo file. This generates a file called long-index.cp, which will crash when texindex is run on it (for a shorter debug path). Upstream has added this patch to their public CVS, but it's not well known. It would be appreciated if nobody released an update until 2006-11-07. I've assigned the name CVE-2006-4810 to this issue. Here are the gory details: From what I see, it looks like the code in readline() of texindex.c has some crazy arithmetic. char *buffer = linebuffer->buffer; char *p = linebuffer->buffer; char *end = p + linebuffer->size; while (1) { int c = getc (stream); if (p == end) { buffer = (char *) xrealloc (buffer, linebuffer->size *= 2); p += buffer - linebuffer->buffer; end += buffer - linebuffer->buffer; linebuffer->buffer = buffer; It would seem that when p == end, p and end are assigned what could be a random memory addresses as the location of buffer is likely to change with a realloc from a size of 200 to 400 bytes. p then proceeds to dump trash on the heap until the current line ends.
Embargo ends today.
Created attachment 101376 [details, diff] texindex.patch
vapier, you seem to have done the last changes to texinfo Could you prepare an updated ebuild? This is still more or less confidential, so don't commit anything yet. P.S.: rating still missing, I need some coffee first
ok, but what do you want ? an update ebuild would simply add the patch posted here have a local one sitting my cvs that built fine ...
This is public now. Vapier please commit.
in portage
arches, pls test sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5 and mark stable if possible
x86 done
sparc stable.
Emerges fine on amd64 and seems to work. Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-suspend2-Dudebox-Edition x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2-Dudebox-Edition x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -Os -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage_overlay" SYNC="rsync://server/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gcj gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc objc++ ogg oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd test truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
'Horse-house' on amd64.
ppc stable
Alpha stable.
Stable for HPPA.
ppc64 stable
GLSA 200611-16
