2016-05-23 Florian Weimer CVE-2016-4429 [BZ #20112] * sunrpc/clnt_udp.c (clntudp_call): Use malloc/free for the error payload. Index: glibc-2.23/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c =================================================================== --- glibc-2.23.orig/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c +++ glibc-2.23/sunrpc/clnt_udp.c @@ -391,9 +391,15 @@ send_again: struct sock_extended_err *e; struct sockaddr_in err_addr; struct iovec iov; - char *cbuf = (char *) alloca (outlen + 256); + char *cbuf = malloc (outlen + 256); int ret; + if (cbuf == NULL) + { + cu->cu_error.re_errno = errno; + return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV); + } + iov.iov_base = cbuf + 256; iov.iov_len = outlen; msg.msg_name = (void *) &err_addr; @@ -418,10 +424,12 @@ send_again: cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR (&msg, cmsg)) if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_IP && cmsg->cmsg_type == IP_RECVERR) { + free (cbuf); e = (struct sock_extended_err *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg); cu->cu_error.re_errno = e->ee_errno; return (cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTRECV); } + free (cbuf); } #endif do