Ben Wiederhake aa36e9917c LibC: Prefer strlcpy over strcpy in getgrent(), fix overflow ...

An overlong group name in /etc/groups would have caused getgrent() to overflow
the global __grdb_entry. Curiously, overflow *within* __grdb_entry seems to have
no detrimental effects.

However, it was possible for a malicious sysadmin(?!) to craft an /etc/group
that overflows outside of the page allocated for __grdb_entry thus crash the
calling process. This affected at least SystemServer and su.

Now, the group name will be simply truncated. For display purposes, this is
fine. In case there is an exceptionally long group, it will not be properly
recognized. Also, a malicious /etc/groups might cause the caller of getgrent()
to become confused, but that is unavoidable.

2020-08-24 00:45:03 +02:00

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