commit 87801a8fd06db1d654eea3e4f7626ff476a9bdaa Author: Florian Weimer Date: Thu Apr 25 15:00:45 2024 +0200 CVE-2024-33599: nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (bug 31677) Using alloca matches what other caches do. The request length is bounded by MAXKEYLEN. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell diff --git a/nscd/netgroupcache.c b/nscd/netgroupcache.c index 0c6e46f15c..f227dc7fa2 100644 --- a/nscd/netgroupcache.c +++ b/nscd/netgroupcache.c @@ -502,12 +502,13 @@ addinnetgrX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req, = (struct indataset *) mempool_alloc (db, sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len, 1); - struct indataset dataset_mem; bool cacheable = true; if (__glibc_unlikely (dataset == NULL)) { cacheable = false; - dataset = &dataset_mem; + /* The alloca is safe because nscd_run_worker verfies that + key_len is not larger than MAXKEYLEN. */ + dataset = alloca (sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len); } datahead_init_pos (&dataset->head, sizeof (*dataset) + req->key_len,