[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix latent buffer overflow in qemudOpenMonitorUnix.

[Chris Lalancette]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:20:09PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>> Fix a possible latent bug in qemudOpenMonitorUnix().  If the pathname
>> to the monitor is very long (i.e. >= UNIX_MAX_PATH), then strncpy will
>> *not* place a final \0 on the string (see "man strncpy").
>> NULL terminate the buffer to ensure we don't run off the end.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  src/qemu_driver.c |    1 +
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
>> index 9fcc07a..4f173b7 100644
>> --- a/src/qemu_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
>> @@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ qemudOpenMonitorUnix(virConnectPtr conn,
>>      memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
>>      addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
>>      strncpy(addr.sun_path, monitor, sizeof(addr.sun_path));
>> +    NUL_TERMINATE(addr.sun_path);
>>  
>>      do {
>>          ret = connect(monfd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr));
> 
> ACK, but this mistake is made in pretty much every use of unix 
> domain sockets :-( Could you fix the others here too.
> 
> 
> Clearly strncpy() is just unfit for purpose, and we should plan to banish
> it in favour of a virStrncpy impl that guarnetees to add the trailing \0.

Yeah, true.  Despite the ACKs from you and markmc, I decided not to commit this
yet.  It's quite a theoretical bug (you'd have to have
/var/very/long/non-standard/paths/to/libvirt), so I don't think it's absolutely
critical right now.  I'll convert the rest of the users, and possible come up
with a make syntax-check rule to prevent against future use.

-- 
Chris Lalancette