nscd: Fix double free in netgroupcache [BZ #27462]

In commit 745664bd79 a use-after-free
was fixed, but this led to an occasional double-free.  This patch
tracks the "live" allocation better.

Tested manually by a third party.

Related: RHBZ 1927877

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit dca565886b)
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DJ Delorie 2021-02-25 16:08:21 -05:00 committed by Dmitry V. Levin
parent 2777e19c05
commit c49cbcdc32
2 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions

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NEWS
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@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ Security related changes:
CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[6889] 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
@ -195,6 +200,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
[26383] bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT anymore
[26923] Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
[27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
Version 2.27

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@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
: NULL);
ndomain = (ndomain ? newbuf + ndomaindiff
: NULL);
buffer = newbuf;
*tofreep = buffer = newbuf;
}
nhost = memcpy (buffer + bufused,
@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
else if (status == NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN && e == ERANGE)
{
buflen *= 2;
buffer = xrealloc (buffer, buflen);
*tofreep = buffer = xrealloc (buffer, buflen);
}
else if (status == NSS_STATUS_RETURN
|| status == NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND