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author | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2011-03-24 04:40:33 -0400 |
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committer | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2011-03-24 04:40:33 -0400 |
commit | 4e7ee01264c430b044fd81cbc79a09ee0348d018 (patch) | |
tree | 99e42ea20972a28e62fc921ff272a7be97c02685 | |
parent | da80c2a8ed49427334af613c00df65ae301cacdd (diff) |
Also memset(.., 0, ..) the pre-TLS input buffer.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/src/smtp_in.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index 37c7f216f..ce78086a6 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option. PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid. Bugzilla 1098. -PP/06 Extra paranoia around STARTTLS-with-data-in-buffer. +PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition. + nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316 Exim version 4.75 diff --git a/src/src/smtp_in.c b/src/src/smtp_in.c index 500000be4..38c7afcf6 100644 --- a/src/src/smtp_in.c +++ b/src/src/smtp_in.c @@ -3861,6 +3861,15 @@ while (done <= 0) /* and if TLS is already active, tls_server_start() should fail */ } + /* There is nothing we value in the input buffer and if TLS is succesfully + negotiated, we won't use this buffer again; if TLS fails, we'll just read + fresh content into it. The buffer contains arbitrary content from an + untrusted remote source; eg: NOOP <shellcode>\r\nSTARTTLS\r\n + It seems safest to just wipe away the content rather than leave it as a + target to jump to. */ + + memset(smtp_inbuffer, 0, in_buffer_size); + /* Attempt to start up a TLS session, and if successful, discard all knowledge that was obtained previously. At least, that's what the RFC says, and that's what happens by default. However, in order to work round YAEB, |