[userspace PATCH] Prevent free() of stack buffer with NOLOG format

George McCollister george.mccollister at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 00:01:02 UTC 2016


When the NOLOG format is used replace_event_msg() doesn't change
e->reply.message so the message located on the stack is left and later is
free()'d in cleanup_event() resulting in the following:

*** Error in `auditd': free(): invalid pointer: 0x800bef7c ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x676ba)[0xb752b6ba]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6e227)[0xb7532227]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6e9e6)[0xb75329e6]
auditd(+0x73df)[0x800a43df]
auditd(+0x4975)[0x800a1975]
auditd(+0x4a9c)[0x800a1a9c]
auditd(main+0x931)[0x800a0c21]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf6)[0xb74dc1a6]
auditd(+0x44c4)[0x800a14c4]
======= Memory map: ========
...

This patch changes the log format to RAW when NOLOG format is detected
so that replace_event_msg() will replace e->reply.message with a message
that can be free()'d by cleanup_event().

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister at gmail.com>
---
 src/auditd-config.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/auditd-config.c b/src/auditd-config.c
index 584f079..bc06b1c 100644
--- a/src/auditd-config.c
+++ b/src/auditd-config.c
@@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ static int log_format_parser(struct nv_pair *nv, int line,
 		if (strcasecmp(nv->value, log_formats[i].name) == 0) {
 			config->log_format = log_formats[i].option;
 			if (config->log_format == LF_NOLOG) {
+				config->log_format = LF_RAW;
 				audit_msg(LOG_WARNING,
 				    "The NOLOG option to log_format is deprecated. Please use the write_logs option.");
 				if (config->write_logs != 0)
-- 
2.9.3




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