Date:        12/28/97 2:43:22 AM
From:        <wosch@FREEBSD.ORG>
Subject:     Re: Gzip & segmentation faults
To:          ("<BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>"@LOCAL)

=?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?Micha=B3?= Zalewski <lcamtuf@POLBOX.COM> writes:
> Few days ago, I noticed a problem(s) with gzip and it's archives.
> Gzip seems to be poorly-written with regard to range checking, so
> it's quite easy to cause segmentation faults and buffer overflows.
> Simpliest ooverflow can be done by passing to gzip/gunzip filename
> longer than 1024 bytes:
>
> $ gzip blahblahblahblah... [cut!]
> Segmentation fault (core dumped).

And here is a fix for the problem:

Index: gzip.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.c,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 gzip.c
--- gzip.c      1997/03/15 22:43:58     1.7
+++ gzip.c      1997/12/27 03:20:37
@@ -1006,6 +1006,13 @@
     char *dot; /* pointer to ifname extension, or NULL */
 #endif

+    if (strlen(iname) >= sizeof(ifname) - 3) {
+       errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+       perror(iname);
+       exit_code = ERROR;
+       return ERROR;
+    }
+
     strcpy(ifname, iname);

     /* If input file exists, return OK. */



> Attached example of 'evil' archive (Altered.gz) has been created by
> compressing empty file with gzip's -n switch. After all, byte at offset
> 0x0a (one of possibilities :) has been changed.
> Under Linux, attempt of unziping or viewing this file will cause
> nice segmentation fault. MS-DOS gzip screws-up totally.

Index: inflate.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/inflate.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 inflate.c
--- inflate.c   1997/02/22 15:45:58     1.6
+++ inflate.c   1997/12/26 20:21:39
@@ -767,6 +767,8 @@
     return i;                   /* incomplete code set */
   }

+  if (tl == NULL) /* Grrrhhh */
+       return 2;

   /* read in literal and distance code lengths */
   n = nl + nd;


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