procps: patch CVE-2023-4016

Backport patch from upstream master.

There were three changes needed to apply the patch:
* move NEWS change to start of the file
* change file location from src/ps/ to ps/
* change xmalloc/xcmalloc to malloc/cmalloc

The x*malloc functions were introduced in commit in future version.
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/584028dbe513127ef68c55aa631480454bcc26bf
They call the original function plus additionally throw error when out of memory.
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/blob/v4.0.3/local/xalloc.h?ref_type=tags
So this replacement is correct in context of our version.

(From OE-Core rev: 71d0683d625c09d4db5e0473a0b15a266aa787f4)

Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps/CVE-2023-4016.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+From 2c933ecba3bb1d3041a5a7a53a7b4078a6003413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
+Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:18:38 +1000
+Subject: [PATCH] ps: Fix possible buffer overflow in -C option
+
+ps allocates memory using malloc(length of arg * len of struct).
+In certain strange circumstances, the arg length could be very large
+and the multiplecation will overflow, allocating a small amount of
+memory.
+
+Subsequent strncpy() will then write into unallocated memory.
+The fix is to use calloc. It's slower but this is a one-time
+allocation. Other malloc(x * y) calls have also been replaced
+by calloc(x, y)
+
+References:
+ https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/ps-buffer-overflow-CVE-20234016
+ https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4016
+ https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/297
+ https://bugs.debian.org/1042887
+
+Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
+
+CVE: CVE-2023-4016
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/2c933ecba3bb1d3041a5a7a53a7b4078a6003413]
+
+Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
+
+---
+ NEWS        | 1 +
+ ps/parser.c | 8 ++++----
+ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
+index b9509734..64fa3da8 100644
+--- a/NEWS
++++ b/NEWS
+@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
++  * ps: Fix buffer overflow in -C option CVE-2023-4016     Debian #1042887, issue #297
++
+ procps-ng-3.3.17
+ ---------------
+   * library: Incremented to 8:3:0
+diff --git a/ps/parser.c b/ps/parser.c
+index 248aa741..15873dfa 100644
+--- a/ps/parser.c
++++ b/ps/parser.c
+@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ static const char *parse_list(const char *arg, const char *(*parse_fn)(char *, s
+   const char *err;       /* error code that could or did happen */
+   /*** prepare to operate ***/
+   node = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
+-  node->u = malloc(strlen(arg)*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+   node->n = 0;
+   buf = strdup(arg);
+   /*** sanity check and count items ***/
+@@ -205,6 +204,7 @@ static const char *parse_list(const char *arg, const char *(*parse_fn)(char *, s
+   } while (*++walk);
+   if(need_item) goto parse_error;
+   node->n = items;
++  node->u = calloc(items, sizeof(sel_union));
+   /*** actually parse the list ***/
+   walk = buf;
+   while(items--){
+@@ -1031,15 +1031,15 @@ static const char *parse_trailing_pids(void){
+   thisarg = ps_argc - 1;   /* we must be at the end now */
+ 
+   pidnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
+-  pidnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
++  pidnode->u = calloc(i, sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+   pidnode->n = 0;
+ 
+   grpnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
+-  grpnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
++  grpnode->u = calloc(i,sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+   grpnode->n = 0;
+ 
+   sidnode = malloc(sizeof(selection_node));
+-  sidnode->u = malloc(i*sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
++  sidnode->u = calloc(i, sizeof(sel_union)); /* waste is insignificant */
+   sidnode->n = 0;
+ 
+   while(i--){
+-- 
+GitLab
+

meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.17.bb

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
            file://sysctl.conf \
            file://0001-w.c-correct-musl-builds.patch \
            file://0002-proc-escape.c-add-missing-include.patch \
+           file://CVE-2023-4016.patch \
            "
 SRCREV = "19a508ea121c0c4ac6d0224575a036de745eaaf8"