From: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] erofs-utils: tar: fix out-of-bounds access when trimming pax path
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:13:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260414141313.46575-2-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260414141313.46575-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
When a PAX extended header contains a path consisting entirely of '/'
characters (e.g., "path=/"), the trailing-slash trimming loop in
tarerofs_parse_pax_header() decrements j to 0, then accesses
eh->path[-1] which is an out-of-bounds heap read.
The tar header path trimming had a similar issue fixed by commit
dcd06f421003 ("erofs-utils: mkfs: tar: fix SIGSEGV on `/` entry"),
but the PAX header path trimming was not addressed.
Add a j > 0 guard to the while condition.
Fixes: 95d315fd7958 ("erofs-utils: introduce tarerofs")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
---
lib/tar.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/tar.c b/lib/tar.c
index eca29f5..3d92f48 100644
--- a/lib/tar.c
+++ b/lib/tar.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ int tarerofs_parse_pax_header(struct erofs_iostream *ios,
int j = p - 1 - value;
free(eh->path);
eh->path = strdup(value);
- while (eh->path[j - 1] == '/')
+ while (j > 0 && eh->path[j - 1] == '/')
eh->path[--j] = '\0';
} else if (!strncmp(kv, "linkpath=",
sizeof("linkpath=") - 1)) {
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-14 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-14 14:13 [PATCH erofs-utils 0/2] tar: fix parsing issues for pax and GNU extensions Zhan Xusheng
2026-04-14 14:13 ` Zhan Xusheng [this message]
2026-04-14 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] erofs-utils: tar: fix out-of-bounds access when trimming pax path Gao Xiang
2026-04-14 14:46 ` [PATCH erofs-utils 0/2] tar: fix parsing issues for pax and GNU extensions Zhan Xusheng
2026-04-14 14:49 ` Gao Xiang
2026-04-14 14:55 ` Zhan Xusheng
2026-04-14 14:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] erofs-utils: tar: add missing NULL checks for GNU long name/link Zhan Xusheng
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