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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