avahi: fix CVE-2023-38472

A vulnerability was found in Avahi. A reachable assertion
exists in the avahi_rdata_parse() function.

(From OE-Core rev: 1b699ac1e8519cd488ee033919b9205283b7b465)

Signed-off-by: Meenali Gupta <meenali.gupta@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

2 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
index c733f94e42..23801a7e54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/releases/download/v${PV}/avahi-${PV}
            file://CVE-2023-38471.patch \
            file://CVE-2023-38470.patch \
            file://CVE-2023-38469.patch \
+           file://CVE-2023-38472.patch \
            "
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/releases/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2023-38472.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2023-38472.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f172622c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/files/CVE-2023-38472.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+From 4e2537500dd0a1333845482f1f4147ef906030dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:36:44 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH]core: make sure there is rdata to process before
+ parsing it
+
+Fixes #452
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commit/b024ae5749f4aeba03478e6391687c3c9c8dee40]
+CVE: CVE-2023-38472
+
+Signed-off-by: Meenali Gupta <meenali.gupta@windriver.com>
+---
+ avahi-client/client-test.c      | 3 +++
+ avahi-daemon/dbus-entry-group.c | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/avahi-client/client-test.c b/avahi-client/client-test.c
+index 7d04a6a..57750a4 100644
+--- a/avahi-client/client-test.c
++++ b/avahi-client/client-test.c
+@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ int main (AVAHI_GCC_UNUSED int argc, AVAHI_GCC_UNUSED char *argv[]) {
+     printf("%s\n", avahi_strerror(avahi_entry_group_add_service (group, AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC, 0, "Lathiat's Site", "_http._tcp", NULL, NULL, 80, "foo=bar", NULL)));
+     printf("add_record: %d\n", avahi_entry_group_add_record (group, AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC, 0, "TestX", 0x01, 0x10, 120, "\5booya", 6));
+
++    error = avahi_entry_group_add_record (group, AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC, 0, "TestX", 0x01, 0x10, 120, "", 0);
++    assert(error != AVAHI_OK);
++
+     avahi_entry_group_commit (group);
+
+     domain = avahi_domain_browser_new (avahi, AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC, NULL, AVAHI_DOMAIN_BROWSER_BROWSE, 0, avahi_domain_browser_callback, (char*) "omghai3u");
+diff --git a/avahi-daemon/dbus-entry-group.c b/avahi-daemon/dbus-entry-group.c
+index 4e879a5..aa23d4b 100644
+--- a/avahi-daemon/dbus-entry-group.c
++++ b/avahi-daemon/dbus-entry-group.c
+@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ DBusHandlerResult avahi_dbus_msg_entry_group_impl(DBusConnection *c, DBusMessage
+         if (!(r = avahi_record_new_full (name, clazz, type, ttl)))
+             return avahi_dbus_respond_error(c, m, AVAHI_ERR_NO_MEMORY, NULL);
+
+-        if (avahi_rdata_parse (r, rdata, size) < 0) {
++        if (!rdata || avahi_rdata_parse (r, rdata, size) < 0) {
+             avahi_record_unref (r);
+             return avahi_dbus_respond_error(c, m, AVAHI_ERR_INVALID_RDATA, NULL);
+         }
+--
+2.40.0