telnet/backport-CVE-2022-39028.patch

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Description: Fix remote DoS vulnerability in inetutils-telnetd
This is caused by a crash by a NULL pointer dereference when sending the
byte sequences «0xff 0xf7» or «0xff 0xf8».
Authors:
Pierre Kim (original patch),
Alexandre Torres (original patch),
Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> (adapted patch),
Reviewed-by: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Origin: upstream
Ref: https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html
Forwarded: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html
Last-Update: 2022-08-28
---
telnetd/state.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/telnetd/state.c b/telnetd/state.c
index 0dc61a2..befc9d0 100644
--- a/telnetd/state.c
+++ b/telnetd/state.c
@@ -206,12 +206,20 @@ void telrcv(void) {
case EC:
case EL:
{
- cc_t ch;
+ cc_t ch = (cc_t) (_POSIX_VDISABLE);
DIAG(TD_OPTIONS, printoption("td: recv IAC", c));
ptyflush(); /* half-hearted */
init_termbuf();
- if (c == EC) ch = *slctab[SLC_EC].sptr;
- else ch = *slctab[SLC_EL].sptr;
+ if (c == EC)
+ {
+ if (slctab[SLC_EC].sptr)
+ ch = *slctab[SLC_EC].sptr;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ if (slctab[SLC_EL].sptr)
+ ch = *slctab[SLC_EL].sptr;
+ }
if (ch != (cc_t)(_POSIX_VDISABLE))
*pfrontp++ = (unsigned char)ch;
break;
--
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