third_party_cups/backport-CVE-2022-26691.patch
2022-06-10 16:56:36 +08:00

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From de4f8c196106033e4c372dce3e91b9d42b0b9444 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 06:27:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] scheduler/cert.c: Fix string comparison (fixes
CVE-2022-26691)
The previous algorithm didn't expect the strings can have a different
length, so one string can be a substring of the other and such substring
was reported as equal to the longer string.
Reference:https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/de4f8c196106033e4c372dce3e91b9d42b0b9444
---
scheduler/cert.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scheduler/cert.c b/scheduler/cert.c
index b268bf1b2..9b65b96c9 100644
--- a/scheduler/cert.c
+++ b/scheduler/cert.c
@@ -444,5 +444,12 @@ ctcompare(const char *a, /* I - First string */
b ++;
}
- return (result);
+ /*
+ * The while loop finishes when *a == '\0' or *b == '\0'
+ * so after the while loop either both *a and *b == '\0',
+ * or one points inside a string, so when we apply logical OR on *a,
+ * *b and result, we get a non-zero return value if the compared strings don't match.
+ */
+
+ return (result | *a | *b);
}