bin/122137: Have crontab use snprintf instead of sprintf
Steven Kreuzer
skreuzer at exit2shell.com
Wed Mar 26 22:00:02 UTC 2008
>Number: 122137
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Have crontab use snprintf instead of sprintf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 26 22:00:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Steven Kreuzer
>Release: 7.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Feb 19 20:21:39 EST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
since crontab runs as suid, it makes sense to replace all instances of sprintf with snprintf. I suppose you can never be too paranoid
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: crontab.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/share/cvs/freebsd/src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.25 crontab.c
--- crontab.c 7 Nov 2007 10:53:34 -0000 1.25
+++ crontab.c 26 Mar 2008 02:22:07 -0000
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
FILE *f;
log_it(RealUser, Pid, "LIST", User);
- (void) sprintf(n, CRON_TAB(User));
+ (void) snprintf(n, sizeof(n), CRON_TAB(User));
if (!(f = fopen(n, "r"))) {
if (errno == ENOENT)
errx(ERROR_EXIT, "no crontab for %s", User);
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
}
log_it(RealUser, Pid, "DELETE", User);
- (void) sprintf(n, CRON_TAB(User));
+ (void) snprintf(n, sizeof(n), CRON_TAB(User));
if (unlink(n)) {
if (errno == ENOENT)
errx(ERROR_EXIT, "no crontab for %s", User);
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
char new_md5[MD5_SIZE];
log_it(RealUser, Pid, "BEGIN EDIT", User);
- (void) sprintf(n, CRON_TAB(User));
+ (void) snprintf(n, sizeof(n), CRON_TAB(User));
if (!(f = fopen(n, "r"))) {
if (errno != ENOENT)
err(ERROR_EXIT, "%s", n);
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
}
um = umask(077);
- (void) sprintf(Filename, "/tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX");
+ (void) snprintf(Filename, sizeof(Filename), "/tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX");
if ((t = mkstemp(Filename)) == -1) {
warn("%s", Filename);
(void) umask(um);
@@ -502,8 +502,8 @@
return (-2);
}
- (void) sprintf(n, "tmp.%d", Pid);
- (void) sprintf(tn, CRON_TAB(n));
+ (void) snprintf(n, sizeof(n), "tmp.%d", Pid);
+ (void) snprintf(tn, sizeof(n), CRON_TAB(n));
if (!(tmp = fopen(tn, "w+"))) {
warn("%s", tn);
return (-2);
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@
return (-2);
}
- (void) sprintf(n, CRON_TAB(User));
+ (void) snprintf(n, sizeof(n), CRON_TAB(User));
if (rename(tn, n)) {
warn("error renaming %s to %s", tn, n);
unlink(tn);
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