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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-03-09 15:09:49 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-03-09 15:09:49 -0400
commit24c031b1a28658c921a746f4d58f3ca5e9994108 (patch)
treeb75415576527d580415a83d4d6338081c7ba76fb
parent681802817deb6fb93b95f8284856fd42f3556600 (diff)
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Don't use checked strl{cat,cpy} on OSX.
There is a bug in the overlap-checking in strlcat that can crash Tor servers. Fixes bug 15205; this is an OSX bug, not a Tor bug.
-rw-r--r--changes/bug152055
-rw-r--r--src/common/compat.h12
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug15205 b/changes/bug15205
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0cb9f3f4bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug15205
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+ o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
+ - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug
+ in OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first
+ appeared in OSX 10.9.
+
diff --git a/src/common/compat.h b/src/common/compat.h
index ec7d2415ed..531e88f1bd 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.h
+++ b/src/common/compat.h
@@ -224,6 +224,18 @@ extern INLINE double U64_TO_DBL(uint64_t x) {
#define strncasecmp _strnicmp
#define strcasecmp _stricmp
#endif
+
+#if defined __APPLE__
+/* On OSX 10.9 and later, the overlap-checking code for strlcat would
+ * appear to have a severe bug that can sometimes cause aborts in Tor.
+ * Instead, use the non-checking variants. This is sad.
+ *
+ * See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15205
+ */
+#undef strlcat
+#undef strlcpy
+#endif
+
#ifndef HAVE_STRLCAT
size_t strlcat(char *dst, const char *src, size_t siz) ATTR_NONNULL((1,2));
#endif