Fixed tor_vasprintf on systems without vasprintf.

If tor is compiled on a system with neither vasprintf nor _vscprintf,
the fallback implementation exposes a logic flaw which prevents
proper usage of strings longer than 127 characters:

* tor_vsnprintf returns -1 if supplied buffer is not large enough,
  but tor_vasprintf uses this function to retrieve required length
* the result of tor_vsnprintf is not properly checked for negative
  return values

Both aspects together could in theory lead to exposure of uninitialized
stack memory in the resulting string. This requires an invalid format
string or data that exceeds integer limitations.

Fortunately tor is not even able to run with this implementation because
it runs into asserts early on during startup. Also the unit tests fail
during a "make check" run.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>

  [backported to 0.2.9 by nickm]

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index 9758751122..d3bc2f5fec 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -558,10 +558,17 @@ tor_vasprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, va_list args)
   int len, r;
   va_list tmp_args;
   va_copy(tmp_args, args);
-  /* vsnprintf() was properly checked but tor_vsnprintf() available so
-   * why not use it? */
-  len = tor_vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, tmp_args);
+  /* Use vsnprintf to retrieve needed length.  tor_vsnprintf() is not an option
+   * here because it will simply return -1 if buf is not large enough to hold the
+   * complete string.
+   */
+  len = vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, tmp_args);
   va_end(tmp_args);
+  buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0';
+  if (len < 0) {
+    *strp = NULL;
+    return -1;
+  }
   if (len < (int)sizeof(buf)) {
     *strp = tor_strdup(buf);
     return len;