File getaddrinfo-overflow.patch of Package glibc.openSUSE_12.3_Update

From 1cef1b19089528db11f221e938f60b9b048945d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:50:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results

	[BZ #15330]
	* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (getaddrinfo): Allocate results and
	order arrays from heap if bigger than alloca cutoff.

---
 ChangeLog                   |  6 ++++++
 NEWS                        |  5 ++++-
 sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
index d95c2d1..2309281 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
@@ -2489,11 +2489,27 @@ getaddrinfo (const char *name, const char *service,
       __typeof (once) old_once = once;
       __libc_once (once, gaiconf_init);
       /* Sort results according to RFC 3484.  */
-      struct sort_result results[nresults];
-      size_t order[nresults];
+      struct sort_result *results;
+      size_t *order;
       struct addrinfo *q;
       struct addrinfo *last = NULL;
       char *canonname = NULL;
+      bool malloc_results;
+
+      malloc_results
+	= !__libc_use_alloca (nresults * (sizeof (*results) + sizeof (size_t)));
+      if (malloc_results)
+	{
+	  results = malloc (nresults * (sizeof (*results) + sizeof (size_t)));
+	  if (results == NULL)
+	    {
+	      __free_in6ai (in6ai);
+	      return EAI_MEMORY;
+	    }
+	}
+      else
+	results = alloca (nresults * (sizeof (*results) + sizeof (size_t)));
+      order = (size_t *) (results + nresults);
 
       /* Now we definitely need the interface information.  */
       if (! check_pf_called)
@@ -2664,6 +2680,9 @@ getaddrinfo (const char *name, const char *service,
 
       /* Fill in the canonical name into the new first entry.  */
       p->ai_canonname = canonname;
+
+      if (malloc_results)
+	free (results);
     }
 
   __free_in6ai (in6ai);
-- 
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