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app-arch/tar-1.34: Adding a patch to fix CVE-2022-48303
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This patch is cherry-picked from the upstream gnu/tar repository
which fixes a heap buffer overflow issue in the utility. This fix is
needed to resolve CVE-2022-48303.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/898176
Signed-off-by: Nobel Barakat <nobelbarakat@google.com>
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nobellium1997 committed Feb 27, 2023
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30 changes: 30 additions & 0 deletions app-arch/tar/files/tar-1.34-fix-cve-2022-48303.patch
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From 3da78400eafcccb97e2f2fd4b227ea40d794ede8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:57:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix boundary checking in base-256 decoder

* src/list.c (from_header): Base-256 encoding is at least 2 bytes
long.
---
src/list.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/list.c b/src/list.c
index 9fafc425..86bcfdd1 100644
--- a/src/list.c
+++ b/src/list.c
@@ -881,8 +881,9 @@ from_header (char const *where0, size_t digs, char const *type,
where++;
}
}
- else if (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
- || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */)
+ else if (where <= lim - 2
+ && (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
+ || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */))
{
/* Parse base-256 output. A nonnegative number N is
represented as (256**DIGS)/2 + N; a negative number -N is
--
2.39.2.637.g21b0678d19-goog

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app-alternatives/tar
"

PATCHES=(
"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-fix-cve-2022-48303.patch
)

src_configure() {
local myeconfargs=(
--bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin
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