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GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49"
From: Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:04:18 +0100
Hi, GNU screen 4.8.0 was released yesterday with a documented security fix in it: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2020-02/msg00007.html --- From: Amadeusz Slawinski Subject: [screen-devel] GNU Screen v.4.8.0 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 21:45:35 +0100 Hello everyone, I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.8.0 Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. This release * Improves startup time by only polling for already open files to close * Fixes: - Fix for segfault if termcap doesn't have Km entry - Make screen exit code be 0 when checking --version - Fix potential memory corruption when using OSC 49 As last fix, fixes potential memory overwrite of quite big size (~768 bytes), and even though I'm not sure about potential exploitability of that issue, I highly recommend everyone to upgrade as soon as possible. This issue is present at least since v.4.2.0 (haven't checked earlier). Thanks to pippin who brought this to my attention. For full list of changes see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/log/?h=v.4.8.0 For more information about GNU screen visit: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen/ Release is available for download at: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/ or your closest mirror (may have some delay) https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/screen/ Please report any bugs or regressions. Cheers! Amadeusz on behalf of GNU Screen Team --- The fix commit is: --- commit 68386dfb1fa33471372a8cd2e74686758a2f527b Author: Amadeusz Slawinski <amade () asmblr net> Date: Thu Jan 30 17:56:27 2020 +0100 Fix out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49 echo -e "\e]49\e; \n\ec" crashes screen. This happens because 49 is divided by 10 and used as table index resulting in access to w_xtermosc[4], which is out of bounds with table itself being size 4. Increase size of table by 1 to 5, which is enough for all current uses. As this overwrites memory based on user input it is potential security issue. Reported-by: pippin () gimp org Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Slawinski <amade () asmblr net> --- This is followed by another related commit: --- commit 0dd53533e20d2948351a99ec5336fbc9b82b226a Author: Amadeusz Slawinski <amade () asmblr net> Date: Wed Feb 5 21:05:28 2020 +0100 Increase permitted length of OSC hyperlink feature used by some terminals requires lots of characters https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda#length-limits mentions around 2083 characters, set it to a bit more. Bug: 57718 Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Slawinski <amade () asmblr net> --- Combined, these two commits change: char w_xtermosc[4][MAXSTR]; /* special xterm/rxvt escapes */ (where MAXSTR is 768) to: char w_xtermosc[5][2560]; /* special xterm/rxvt escapes */ These are as seen on the screen-v4 branch. On that branch, and thus in all screen releases so far, the bug appears to be exposed only when building with the "--enable-rxvt_osc" option. Builds and packages made without that option appear to be safe. Amadeusz, can you confirm this? On master branch, the functionality is always enabled (and the option is dropped), thus (not too ancient) builds from that branch are vulnerable (until the above fixes, which were also made to that branch). Alexander
Current thread:
- GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Solar Designer (Feb 06)
- Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Amadeusz Sławiński (Feb 06)
- Re: Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Cedric Buissart (Feb 24)
- Re: Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Cedric Buissart (Feb 24)
- Re: Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Cedric Buissart (Feb 24)
- Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Salvatore Bonaccorso (Feb 25)
- Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Amadeusz Sławiński (Feb 25)
- Re: GNU screen "out of bounds access when setting w_xtermosc after OSC 49" Amadeusz Sławiński (Feb 06)