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busybox: backport fix for CVE-2021-28831
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This backports a fix for the low priority CVE-2021-28831:
  decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit
  on the huft_build result pointer, with a resultant invalid free or
  segmentation fault, via malformed gzip data.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion package/utils/busybox/Makefile
Expand Up @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk

PKG_NAME:=busybox
PKG_VERSION:=1.33.0
PKG_RELEASE:=2
PKG_RELEASE:=3
PKG_FLAGS:=essential

PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
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52 changes: 52 additions & 0 deletions package/utils/busybox/patches/005-backport-CVE-2021-28831.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
From f25d254dfd4243698c31a4f3153d4ac72aa9e9bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Sapalski <samuel.sapalski@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 16:31:22 +0100
Subject: decompress_gunzip: Fix DoS if gzip is corrupt

On certain corrupt gzip files, huft_build will set the error bit on
the result pointer. If afterwards abort_unzip is called huft_free
might run into a segmentation fault or an invalid pointer to
free(p).

In order to mitigate this, we check in huft_free if the error bit
is set and clear it before the linked list is freed.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Sapalski <samuel.sapalski@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Kaestle <peter.kaestle@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
---
archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c
+++ b/archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c
@@ -220,10 +220,20 @@ static const uint8_t border[] ALIGN1 = {
* each table.
* t: table to free
*/
+#define BAD_HUFT(p) ((uintptr_t)(p) & 1)
+#define ERR_RET ((huft_t*)(uintptr_t)1)
static void huft_free(huft_t *p)
{
huft_t *q;

+ /*
+ * If 'p' has the error bit set we have to clear it, otherwise we might run
+ * into a segmentation fault or an invalid pointer to free(p)
+ */
+ if (BAD_HUFT(p)) {
+ p = (huft_t*)((uintptr_t)(p) ^ (uintptr_t)(ERR_RET));
+ }
+
/* Go through linked list, freeing from the malloced (t[-1]) address. */
while (p) {
q = (--p)->v.t;
@@ -289,8 +299,6 @@ static unsigned fill_bitbuffer(STATE_PAR
* or a valid pointer to a Huffman table, ORed with 0x1 if incompete table
* is given: "fixed inflate" decoder feeds us such data.
*/
-#define BAD_HUFT(p) ((uintptr_t)(p) & 1)
-#define ERR_RET ((huft_t*)(uintptr_t)1)
static huft_t* huft_build(const unsigned *b, const unsigned n,
const unsigned s, const struct cp_ext *cp_ext,
unsigned *m)

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