fix off-by-one in ProtocolGet and ProtocolOpenDir recv buffers#6171
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Thank you for submitting a pull request! Maybe @craigcomstock can review this? |
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ProtocolOpenDir()/ProtocolGet() receive up to CF_MSGSIZE bytes into a char buf[CF_MSGSIZE], but the receive primitives NUL-terminate at buf[received] where received can equal CF_MSGSIZE -- one past the array (TLSRecv/RecvSocketStream both write toget+1 bytes). Drives the real ProtocolOpenDir() over a classic-protocol socketpair with a record-filling reply. Aborts under AddressSanitizer on current code, passes once the buffers are sized CF_BUFSIZE (cfengine#6171). Ref: CFE-4687, cfengine#6171 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks for the contribution. I have a PR with a test that exposes it and shows the test passes with your commit over in #6177 Closing this one in favor of that one |
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Tracing the file-receive path in
libcfnet/protocol.c.TLSRecv()NUL-terminates what it reads:So the buffer must hold
toget + 1bytes.net.cdoes exactly that alreadywith
char proto[CF_INBAND_OFFSET + 1]for aCF_INBAND_OFFSETread.ProtocolGet()andProtocolOpenDir()declarebuf[CF_MSGSIZE]yet receiveup to
CF_MSGSIZEbytes. GET goes straight throughTLSRecv(ssl, buf, CF_MSGSIZE). OPENDIR goes throughReceiveTransaction(), whose length cap isCF_BUFSIZE - CF_INBAND_OFFSET, i.e.CF_MSGSIZE. A peer that fills therecord makes
receivedreachCF_MSGSIZE, so the terminating NUL is writtento
buf[CF_MSGSIZE], one byte past the array. The byte count is servercontrolled, so the reach crosses the trust boundary.
Confirmed by modelling the terminating write with a guard byte placed right
after the buffer: the guard is clobbered at
CF_MSGSIZE, intact once thebuffer is
CF_BUFSIZE.ProtocolStat()in the same file already sizes its bufferCF_BUFSIZE. Theother two now match it.