From: Utkal Singh <singhutkal015@gmail.com>
To: hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, Utkal Singh <singhutkal015@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] erofs-utils: lib/tar: reject negative uid=/gid= values in PAX header
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:12:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260316081243.40931-1-singhutkal015@gmail.com> (raw)
uid= and gid= values are parsed into a long long and then assigned
to st_uid/st_gid which are unsigned types. A negative PAX value
would silently wrap to a huge number, corrupting inode ownership.
Add the same negative-value guard already present for size= to
both uid= and gid= fields.
Signed-off-by: Utkal Singh <singhutkal015@gmail.com>
---
lib/tar.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/tar.c b/lib/tar.c
index 6fa2cda..13e777a 100644
--- a/lib/tar.c
+++ b/lib/tar.c
@@ -559,6 +559,11 @@ int tarerofs_parse_pax_header(struct erofs_iostream *ios,
ret = -EIO;
goto out;
}
+ if (lln < 0) {
+ erofs_err("invalid negative uid= in PAX header");
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
eh->st.st_uid = lln;
eh->use_uid = true;
} else if (!strncmp(kv, "gid=", sizeof("gid=") - 1)) {
@@ -567,6 +572,11 @@ int tarerofs_parse_pax_header(struct erofs_iostream *ios,
ret = -EIO;
goto out;
}
+ if (lln < 0) {
+ erofs_err("invalid negative gid= in PAX header");
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
eh->st.st_gid = lln;
eh->use_gid = true;
} else if (!strncmp(kv, "SCHILY.xattr.",
--
2.43.0
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