oprofile (0.9.6-1.1+squeeze2) 0004-Do-additional-checks-on-user-supplied-arguments.patch

From e40f18454d0fbae93812fa25c78fabec58270a67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:42:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Do additional checks on user supplied arguments

Avoid blindly setting variable to user-supplied values. Check to the values
to make sure they do not contain odd punctuation to address CVE-2011-1760.

The patch was ported by Luciano Bello
---
 utils/opcontrol |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/utils/opcontrol
+++ b/utils/opcontrol
@@ -60,6 +60,43 @@
 	fi
 }
 
+# guess_number_base() checks if string is a valid octal(8), hexidecimal(16),
+# or decimal number(10). The value is returned in $?. Returns 0, if string
+# isn't a octal, hexidecimal, or decimal number.
+guess_number_base()
+{
+    if [[ "$1" =~ ^0[0-7]*$ ]] ; then
+        return 8;
+    elif [[ "$1" =~ ^0x[0-9a-fA-F]+$ ]] ; then
+        return 16;
+    elif [[ "$1" =~ ^[1-9][0-9]*$ ]] ; then
+        return 10;
+    else
+        return 0;
+    fi
+}
+
+# check value is a valid number
+error_if_not_number()
+{
+    error_if_empty $1 $2
+    guess_number_base $2
+    if test "$?" -eq 0 ; then
+        echo "Argument for $1, $2, is not a valid number." >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+error_if_invalid_arg()
+{
+   error_if_empty $1 $2
+   clean_val="`echo "$2" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_:/,\-.'`"
+   if [ "x$2" != "x$clean_val" ]; then
+       echo "Argument for $1, $2, is not valid argument." >&2
+       exit 1
+   fi
+}
+
 # rm_device arguments $1=file_name
 rm_device()
 {
@@ -436,7 +473,7 @@
 		# load the actual information from file
 		while IFS== read -r arg val; do
 			clean_arg="`echo "${arg}" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_'`"
-			clean_val="`echo "${val}" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_:/.-'`"
+            clean_val="`echo "${val}" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_:/,\-.'`"
 			if [ "x$arg" != "x$clean_arg" ]; then
 			    echo "Invalid variable \"$arg\" in $SETUP_FILE."
 			    exit 1
@@ -748,7 +785,7 @@
 				;;
 
 			--save)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+                error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				DUMP=yes
 				SAVE_SESSION=yes
 				SAVE_NAME=$val
@@ -773,7 +810,7 @@
 				# already processed
 				;;
 			--buffer-size)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_not_number $arg $val
 				BUF_SIZE=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
@@ -782,7 +819,7 @@
 					echo "$arg unsupported for this kernel version"
 					exit 1
 				fi
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_not_number $arg $val
 				BUF_WATERSHED=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
@@ -791,12 +828,12 @@
 					echo "$arg unsupported for this kernel version"
 					exit 1
 				fi
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_not_number $arg $val
 				CPU_BUF_SIZE=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			-e|--event)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				# reset any read-in defaults from daemonrc
 				if test "$SEEN_EVENT" = "0"; then
 					NR_CHOSEN=0
@@ -817,7 +854,6 @@
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			-c|--callgraph)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
 				if test ! -f $MOUNT/backtrace_depth; then
 					echo "Call-graph profiling unsupported on this kernel/hardware" >&2
 					exit 1
@@ -826,7 +862,7 @@
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			--vmlinux)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				VMLINUX=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
@@ -835,32 +871,32 @@
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			--kernel-range)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				KERNEL_RANGE=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			--xen)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				XENIMAGE=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			--active-domains)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				ACTIVE_DOMAINS=$val
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			--note-table-size)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
 				if test "$KERNEL_SUPPORT" = "yes"; then
 					echo "\"$arg\" meaningless on this kernel" >&2
 					exit 1
 				else
+					error_if_not_number $arg $val
 					NOTE_SIZE=$val
 				fi
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				;;
 			-i|--image)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				if test "$val" = "all"; then
 					IMAGE_FILTER=
 				else
@@ -873,6 +909,7 @@
 				if test -z "$val"; then
 					VERBOSE="all"
 				else
+					error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 					VERBOSE=$val
 				fi
 				;;
@@ -1809,7 +1846,7 @@
 				exit 0
 				;;
 			--session-dir)
-				error_if_empty $arg $val
+				error_if_invalid_arg $arg $val
 				SESSION_DIR="$val"
 				DO_SETUP=yes
 				# do not exit early