From 2c933ecba3bb1d3041a5a7a53a7b4078a6003413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:18:38 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] ps: Fix possible buffer overflow in -C option

ps allocates memory using malloc(length of arg * len of struct).
In certain strange circumstances, the arg length could be very large
and the multiplecation will overflow, allocating a small amount of
memory.

Subsequent strncpy() will then write into unallocated memory.
The fix is to use calloc. It's slower but this is a one-time
allocation. Other malloc(x * y) calls have also been replaced
by calloc(x, y)

References:
 https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/ps-buffer-overflow-CVE-20234016
 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4016
 https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/297
 https://bugs.debian.org/1042887

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>

CVE: CVE-2023-4016
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/2c933ecba3bb1d3041a5a7a53a7b4078a6003413]

Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>

---
 NEWS        | 1 +
 ps/parser.c | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b9509734..64fa3da8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+  * ps: Fix buffer overflow in -C option CVE-2023-4016     Debian #1042887, issue #297
+
 procps-ng-3.3.17
 ---------------
   * library: Incremented to 8:3:0
diff --git a/ps/parser.c b/ps/parser.c
index 248aa741..15873dfa 100644
--- a/ps/parser.c
+++ b/ps/parser.c
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ static const char *parse_list(const char *arg, const char *(*parse_fn)(char *, s
   const char *err;       /* error code that could or did happen */
   /*** prepare to operate ***/
   node = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
-  node->u = malloc(strlen(arg)*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
   node->n = 0;
   buf = strdup(arg);
   /*** sanity check and count items ***/
@@ -205,6 +204,7 @@ static const char *parse_list(const char *arg, const char *(*parse_fn)(char *, s
   } while (*++walk);
   if(need_item) goto parse_error;
   node->n = items;
+  node->u = calloc(items, sizeof(sel_union));
   /*** actually parse the list ***/
   walk = buf;
   while(items--){
@@ -1031,15 +1031,15 @@ static const char *parse_trailing_pids(void){
   thisarg = ps_argc - 1;   /* we must be at the end now */
 
   pidnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
-  pidnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+  pidnode->u = calloc(i, sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
   pidnode->n = 0;
 
   grpnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
-  grpnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+  grpnode->u = calloc(i,sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
   grpnode->n = 0;
 
   sidnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
-  sidnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+  sidnode->u = calloc(i, sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
   sidnode->n = 0;
 
   while(i--){
-- 
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