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DoS in PureFTPd - continue. Nov 11 2003 02:58PM
Adam Zabrocki (pi3ki31ny wp pl)


DoS in PureFTPd - continue.

After carefully read the source PureFTPd and talk with autor PureFTPd i must apologize for false alarm about DoS in PureFTPd, becouse the messy code will never be executed. Looked once more for source - function displayrate():

"in file src/ftpd.c"

static void displayrate(const char *word, off_t size,

const double started,

const char * const name, int up)

{

...

...

char *resolved_path;

...

...

resolved_path[sizeof_resolved_path - 1U] = 0;

if (realpath(name, resolved_path) == NULL) {

...

...

if (resolved_path[sizeof_resolved_path - 1U] != 0) {

for (;;) {

*resolved_path++ = 0;

}

}

...

...

}

After do loop for() PureFTPd exec is function realpath() (in file src/bsd-realpath.c function bsd_realpath()). Looked for her carefully:

"src/bsd_realpath.c"

char *bsd_realpath(const char *path, char *resolved)

{

char wbuf[MAXPATHLEN + 1U];

...

...

if (strlen(resolved) + strlen(wbuf) + (size_t) needslash +

(size_t) 1U > sizeof_resolved) {

errno = ENAMETOOLONG;

goto err1;

}

...

...

(void) strcat(resolved, wbuf); /* flawfinder: ignore - safe, see above */

...

...

}

Before do strcat() and write to specific memory string (to do messy code that memory must be writed) function check the len and when he was longer then sizeof_resolved (sizeof_resolved is MAXPATHLEN) then function return ENAMETOOLONG. It indemnifies before DoS.

Regards Adam Zabrocki (pi3).

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