Copied from Fedora. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/krb5.git/tree/krb5-CVE-2015-8629.patch?h=f22 From df17a1224a3406f57477bcd372c61e04c0e5a5bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Hudson Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:45:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Verify decoded kadmin C strings [CVE-2015-8629] In xdr_nullstring(), check that the decoded string is terminated with a zero byte and does not contain any internal zero bytes. CVE-2015-8629: In all versions of MIT krb5, an authenticated attacker can cause kadmind to read beyond the end of allocated memory by sending a string without a terminating zero byte. Information leakage may be possible for an attacker with permission to modify the database. CVSSv2 Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C ticket: 8341 (new) target_version: 1.14-next target_version: 1.13-next tags: pullup --- src/lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c b/src/lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c index 2bef858..ba67084 100644 --- a/src/lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c +++ b/src/lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c @@ -64,7 +64,14 @@ bool_t xdr_nullstring(XDR *xdrs, char **objp) return FALSE; } } - return (xdr_opaque(xdrs, *objp, size)); + if (!xdr_opaque(xdrs, *objp, size)) + return FALSE; + /* Check that the unmarshalled bytes are a C string. */ + if ((*objp)[size - 1] != '\0') + return FALSE; + if (memchr(*objp, '\0', size - 1) != NULL) + return FALSE; + return TRUE; case XDR_ENCODE: if (size != 0) -- 2.7.0.rc3