Replace a bunch more uses of strncpy() with safer coding.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit 7240f9200c96 · 2015-01-24T13:05:49.000-05:00
strncpy() has a well-deserved reputation for being unsafe, so make an
effort to get rid of nearly all occurrences in HEAD.

A large fraction of the remaining uses were passing length less than or
equal to the known strlen() of the source, in which case no null-padding
can occur and the behavior is equivalent to memcpy(), though doubtless
slower and certainly harder to reason about.  So just use memcpy() in
these cases.

In other cases, use either StrNCpy() or strlcpy() as appropriate (depending
on whether padding to the full length of the destination buffer seems
useful).

I left a few strncpy() calls alone in the src/timezone/ code, to keep it
in sync with upstream (the IANA tzcode distribution).  There are also a
few such calls in ecpg that could possibly do with more analysis.

AFAICT, none of these changes are more than cosmetic, except for the four
occurrences in fe-secure-openssl.c, which are in fact buggy: an overlength
source leads to a non-null-terminated destination buffer and ensuing
misbehavior.  These don't seem like security issues, first because no stack
clobber is possible and second because if your values of sslcert etc are
coming from untrusted sources then you've got problems way worse than this.
Still, it's undesirable to have unpredictable behavior for overlength
inputs, so back-patch those four changes to all active branches.
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 
 	/* Read the client certificate file */
 	if (conn->sslcert && strlen(conn->sslcert) > 0)
-		strncpy(fnbuf, conn->sslcert, sizeof(fnbuf));
+		strlcpy(fnbuf, conn->sslcert, sizeof(fnbuf));
 	else if (have_homedir)
 		snprintf(fnbuf, sizeof(fnbuf), "%s/%s", homedir, USER_CERT_FILE);
 	else
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 #endif   /* USE_SSL_ENGINE */
 		{
 			/* PGSSLKEY is not an engine, treat it as a filename */
-			strncpy(fnbuf, conn->sslkey, sizeof(fnbuf));
+			strlcpy(fnbuf, conn->sslkey, sizeof(fnbuf));
 		}
 	}
 	else if (have_homedir)
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 	 * verification after the connection has been completed.
 	 */
 	if (conn->sslrootcert && strlen(conn->sslrootcert) > 0)
-		strncpy(fnbuf, conn->sslrootcert, sizeof(fnbuf));
+		strlcpy(fnbuf, conn->sslrootcert, sizeof(fnbuf));
 	else if (have_homedir)
 		snprintf(fnbuf, sizeof(fnbuf), "%s/%s", homedir, ROOT_CERT_FILE);
 	else
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ initialize_SSL(PGconn *conn)
 		if ((cvstore = SSL_CTX_get_cert_store(SSL_context)) != NULL)
 		{
 			if (conn->sslcrl && strlen(conn->sslcrl) > 0)
-				strncpy(fnbuf, conn->sslcrl, sizeof(fnbuf));
+				strlcpy(fnbuf, conn->sslcrl, sizeof(fnbuf));
 			else if (have_homedir)
 				snprintf(fnbuf, sizeof(fnbuf), "%s/%s", homedir, ROOT_CRL_FILE);
 			else
