dlinfo/rtld.c bug

From: William Josephson <freebsd-D20050727_at_morphisms.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
I've run across a bug in the ELF dynamic linker in FreeBSD 4.x
and FreeBSD 5.4.  Although I haven't had a chance to compile or
install FreeBSD 6 yet, the bug appears to be in the ELF dynamic
linker in at least FreeBSD 4 through -CURRENT.  The problem is
that do_search_info in libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c does not account
for the space required by Dl_serpath structures with either the
RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE, or the RTLD_DI_SERINFO requests.  The
example program in the dlinfo man page happens to work, but a
simple loop copying the path strings into a buffer allocated with
malloc will corrupt the heap.  The program below illustrates the
problem.  Given that the arithmetic in do_search_info is easily
fixed, it might be worth patching before the upcoming release.

	#include <link.h>
	#include <dlfcn.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	
	int
	main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		char *s;
		Dl_serinfo *p;
		Dl_serinfo info;
	
		memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
		dlinfo(RTLD_SELF, RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE, (void*)&info);
		p = malloc(info.dls_size);
		memset(p, 0, info.dls_size);
		p->dls_cnt = info.dls_cnt;
		p->dls_size = info.dls_size;
		dlinfo(RTLD_SELF, RTLD_DI_SERINFO, (void*)p);
		s = p->dls_serpath[p->dls_cnt-1].dls_name;
		s += strlen(s)+1;
		printf("%d %d %d %d %d\n", info.dls_size, (char*)s-(char*)p,
			((char*)s-(char*)p)-info.dls_size, sizeof(Dl_serpath),
			info.dls_cnt*sizeof(Dl_serpath));
		return 0;
	}
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