[patch] git: fix overflow in update-cache.c

this patch fixes a 1-byte overflow in update-cache.c (probably not
exploitable). A specially crafted db object might trigger this overflow.

the bug is that normally the 'type' field is parsed by read_sha1_file(),
via:

	if (sscanf(buffer, "%10s %lu", type, size) != 2)

i.e. 0-10 long strings, which take 1-11 bytes of space. Normally the
type strings are stored in char [20] arrays, but in update-cache.c that
is char [10], so a 1 byte overflow might occur.

This should not happen with a 'friendly' DB, as the longest type string
("commit") is 7 bytes long. The fix is to use the customary char [20].

(someone might want to clean those open-coded constants up with a
TYPE_LEN define, they do tend to cause problems like this. I'm not
against open-coded constants (they make code much more readable), but
for fields that get filled in from possibly hostile objects this is
playing with fire.)

hey, this might be the first true security fix for GIT? ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>

diff --git a/update-cache.c b/update-cache.c
index d7caed6..3b44fe1 100644 (file)
--- a/update-cache.c
+++ b/update-cache.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int compare_data(struct cache_entry *ce, unsigned long expected_size)
        if (fd >= 0) {
                void *buffer;
                unsigned long size;
-               char type[10];
+               char type[20];
 
                buffer = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, type, &size);
                if (buffer) {