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grub: add a fix for a memory leak

This patch fixes a memory leak in grub's syslinux parsing. It is a part of
a security series [1].

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-03/msg00007.html

(From OE-Core rev: a9d0155842f0582a0d247c81bf972661f0a2cda8)

Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Marta Rybczynska
2022-02-18 11:05:36 +01:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent b46710743b
commit 4c7bfa8abe
2 changed files with 44 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
From ea12feb69b6af93c7e2fa03df7ac3bd1f4edd599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:31:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] syslinux: Fix memory leak while parsing
In syslinux_parse_real() the 2 points where return is being called
didn't release the memory stored in buf which is no longer required.
Fixes: CID 176634
Signed-off-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=95bc016dba94cab3d398dd74160665915cd08ad6]
Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@huawei.com>
---
grub-core/lib/syslinux_parse.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/grub-core/lib/syslinux_parse.c b/grub-core/lib/syslinux_parse.c
index 4afa992..3acc6b4 100644
--- a/grub-core/lib/syslinux_parse.c
+++ b/grub-core/lib/syslinux_parse.c
@@ -737,7 +737,10 @@ syslinux_parse_real (struct syslinux_menu *menu)
&& grub_strncasecmp ("help", ptr3, ptr4 - ptr3) == 0))
{
if (helptext (ptr5, file, menu))
- return 1;
+ {
+ grub_free (buf);
+ return 1;
+ }
continue;
}
@@ -757,6 +760,7 @@ syslinux_parse_real (struct syslinux_menu *menu)
}
fail:
grub_file_close (file);
+ grub_free (buf);
return err;
}
+1
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@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/grub/grub-${PV}.tar.gz \
file://0025-affs-Fix-memory-leaks.patch \
file://0026-libgcrypt-mpi-Fix-possible-unintended-sign-extension.patch \
file://0027-libgcrypt-mpi-Fix-possible-NULL-dereference.patch \
file://0028-syslinux-Fix-memory-leak-while-parsing.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5ce674ca6b2612d8939b9e6abed32934"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f10c85ae3e204dbaec39ae22fa3c5e99f0665417e91c2cb49b7e5031658ba6ea"