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wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
The wincred credential helper uses a static buffer ("target") as a unique key for storing and comparing against internal storage. It does this by building up a string is supposed to look like: git:$PROTOCOL://$USERNAME@$HOST/@path However, the static "target" buffer is declared as a wide string with no more than 1,024 wide characters. The first call to wcsncat() is almost correct (it copies no more than ARRAY_SIZE(target) wchar_t's), but does not account for the trailing NUL, introducing an off-by-one error. But subsequent calls to wcsncat() have an additional problem on top of the off-by-one. They do not account for the length of the existing wide string being built up in 'target'. So the following: $ perl -e ' my $x = "x" x 1_000; print "protocol=$x\nhost=$x\nusername=$x\npath=$x\n" ' | C\:/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-wincred.exe get will result in a segmentation fault from over-filling buffer. This bug is as old as the wincred helper itself, dating back to a6253da (contrib: add win32 credential-helper, 2012-07-27). Commit 8b2d219 (wincred: improve compatibility with windows versions, 2013-01-10) replaced the use of strncat() with wcsncat(), but retained the buggy behavior. Fix this by using a "target_append()" helper which accounts for both the length of the existing string within the buffer, as well as the trailing NUL character. Reported-by: David Leadbeater <[email protected]> Helped-by: David Leadbeater <[email protected]> Helped-by: Jeff King <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <[email protected]>
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contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c

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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ static void *xmalloc(size_t size)
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static WCHAR *wusername, *password, *protocol, *host, *path, target[1024],
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*password_expiry_utc;
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static void target_append(const WCHAR *src)
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{
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size_t avail = ARRAY_SIZE(target) - wcslen(target) - 1; /* -1 for NUL */
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if (avail < wcslen(src))
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die("target buffer overflow");
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wcsncat(target, src, avail);
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}
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static void write_item(const char *what, LPCWSTR wbuf, int wlen)
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{
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char *buf;
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/* prepare 'target', the unique key for the credential */
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wcscpy(target, L"git:");
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wcsncat(target, protocol, ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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wcsncat(target, L"://", ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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target_append(protocol);
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target_append(L"://");
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if (wusername) {
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wcsncat(target, wusername, ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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wcsncat(target, L"@", ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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target_append(wusername);
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target_append(L"@");
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}
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if (host)
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wcsncat(target, host, ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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target_append(host);
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if (path) {
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wcsncat(target, L"/", ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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wcsncat(target, path, ARRAY_SIZE(target));
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target_append(L"/");
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target_append(path);
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}
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if (!strcmp(argv[1], "get"))

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