The local_truncate() callback is vulnerable to symlink attacks because
it calls truncate() which follows symbolic links in all path elements.
This patch converts local_truncate() to rely on open_nofollow() and
ftruncate() instead.
This partly fixes CVE-2016-9602.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
---
hw/9pfs/9p-local.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
index ae5d26821791..c6c114839287 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
@@ -894,13 +894,14 @@ err_out:
static int local_truncate(FsContext *ctx, V9fsPath *fs_path, off_t size)
{
- char *buffer;
- int ret;
- char *path = fs_path->data;
+ int fd, ret;
- buffer = rpath(ctx, path);
- ret = truncate(buffer, size);
- g_free(buffer);
+ fd = local_open_nofollow(ctx, fs_path->data, O_WRONLY, 0);
+ if (fd == -1) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+ ret = ftruncate(fd, size);
+ close_preserve_errno(fd);
return ret;
}
--
2.7.4
