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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-10-04 18:56:45 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-10-31 08:46:35 +0100
commit53e71e47d6b81650d26ec33a58d0dca24c7ffb2c (patch)
treea5f0a1087187b889163113e83f081f8fec9d16d8
parentc5be3d7267c725dbd093ff3a883e07ee8cf2a1d5 (diff)
unescape: avoid integer overflow
CVE-2016-8622 Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102H.html Reported-by: Cure53
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.37
-rw-r--r--lib/dict.c10
-rw-r--r--lib/escape.c10
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.3
index 06fd6fcb5..50ce97db7 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_unescape.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ will use strlen() on the input \fIurl\fP string to find out the size.
If \fBoutlength\fP is non-NULL, the function will write the length of the
returned string in the integer it points to. This allows an escaped string
-containing %00 to still get used properly after unescaping.
+containing %00 to still get used properly after unescaping. Since this is a
+pointer to an \fIint\fP type, it can only return a value up to INT_MAX so no
+longer string can be unescaped if the string length is returned in this
+parameter.
You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it.
.SH AVAILABILITY
diff --git a/lib/dict.c b/lib/dict.c
index a7b5965bd..48a4e0a81 100644
--- a/lib/dict.c
+++ b/lib/dict.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include "transfer.h"
#include "sendf.h"
-
+#include "escape.h"
#include "progress.h"
#include "strequal.h"
#include "dict.h"
@@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ static char *unescape_word(struct Curl_easy *data, const char *inputbuff)
char *newp;
char *dictp;
char *ptr;
- int len;
+ size_t len;
char ch;
int olen=0;
- newp = curl_easy_unescape(data, inputbuff, 0, &len);
- if(!newp)
+ CURLcode result = Curl_urldecode(data, inputbuff, 0, &newp, &len, FALSE);
+ if(!newp || result)
return NULL;
dictp = malloc(((size_t)len)*2 + 1); /* add one for terminating zero */
diff --git a/lib/escape.c b/lib/escape.c
index e61260d7c..66570076e 100644
--- a/lib/escape.c
+++ b/lib/escape.c
@@ -224,8 +224,14 @@ char *curl_easy_unescape(struct Curl_easy *data, const char *string,
FALSE);
if(res)
return NULL;
- if(olen)
- *olen = curlx_uztosi(outputlen);
+
+ if(olen) {
+ if(outputlen <= (size_t) INT_MAX)
+ *olen = curlx_uztosi(outputlen);
+ else
+ /* too large to return in an int, fail! */
+ Curl_safefree(str);
+ }
}
return str;
}