git: 5737c2ae06e1 - main - telnet: Prevent buffer overflow in the user prompt for SRA
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:41:52 UTC
The branch main has been updated by jhb:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=5737c2ae06e143e49496df2ab5a64f76d5456012
commit 5737c2ae06e143e49496df2ab5a64f76d5456012
Author: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-04-16 13:41:03 +0000
Commit: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-04-16 13:41:03 +0000
telnet: Prevent buffer overflow in the user prompt for SRA
The Secure RPC authenticator for telnet prompts the local user for the
username to use for authentication. Previously it was using sprintf()
into a buffer of 256 bytes, but the username received over the wire
can be up to 255 bytes long which would overflow the prompt buffer.
Fix this in two ways: First, use snprintf() and check for overflow.
If the prompt buffer overflows, fail authentication without prompting
the user. Second, add 10 bytes to the buffer size to account for the
overhead of the prompt so that a maximally sized username fits.
While here, replace a bare 255 in the subsequent telnet_gets call with
an expression using sizeof() the relevant buffer.
PR: 270263
Reported by: Robert Morris <rtm@lcs.mit.edu>
Tested on: CHERI
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49832
---
contrib/telnet/libtelnet/sra.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/telnet/libtelnet/sra.c b/contrib/telnet/libtelnet/sra.c
index abacda12b495..3531c703a3d0 100644
--- a/contrib/telnet/libtelnet/sra.c
+++ b/contrib/telnet/libtelnet/sra.c
@@ -241,9 +241,10 @@ bad:
void
sra_reply(Authenticator *ap, unsigned char *data, int cnt)
{
- char uprompt[256],tuser[256];
+ char uprompt[256 + 10]; /* +10 for "User (): " */
+ char tuser[256];
Session_Key skey;
- size_t i;
+ size_t i, len;
if (cnt-- < 1)
return;
@@ -266,8 +267,15 @@ sra_reply(Authenticator *ap, unsigned char *data, int cnt)
/* encode user */
memset(tuser,0,sizeof(tuser));
- sprintf(uprompt,"User (%s): ",UserNameRequested);
- telnet_gets(uprompt,tuser,255,1);
+ len = snprintf(uprompt, sizeof(uprompt), "User (%s): ",
+ UserNameRequested);
+ if (len >= sizeof(uprompt)) {
+ if (auth_debug_mode) {
+ printf("SRA user name too long\r\n");
+ }
+ return;
+ }
+ telnet_gets(uprompt, tuser, sizeof(tuser) - 1, 1);
if (tuser[0] == '\n' || tuser[0] == '\r' )
strcpy(user,UserNameRequested);
else {