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nano 2.5.3-2 on Xenial crashes with long paths on lockfiles

Bug #1641592 reported by Antti Tönkyrä on 2016-11-14

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nano (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned
	Xenial	Fix Released	High	Brian Murray

Bug Description

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
# apt-cache policy nano
nano:
Installed: 2.5.3-2
Candidate: 2.5.3-2

Reproducer:
1. # nano -G 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
2. <ctrl-z>
3. # nano -G 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
4. <answer y/n to the lockfile question>
5. <nano should segfault>

Quick dissection:
Looking at function do_lockfile in files.c, it seems that promptstr is statically allocated to 128 characters. Now with a sufficiently long filename, the following sprintf() call will overflow the allocated promptstr buffer and corrupt memory.

Tags:

Antti Tönkyrä (atonkyra) on 2016-11-14

summary:

- nano 2.5.3-2 on Xenial crashes when trying to access a lockfile
+ nano 2.5.3-2 on Xenial crashes with long paths on lockfiles

Revision history for this message

Benno Schulenberg (bennoschulenberg) wrote on 2016-11-14:

fixes the crash when finding lockfiles for long names Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain)

This is a duplicate of upstream bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47511 .

The problem was fixed in git, commit fb9585e. See attached patch. The fix is in version 2.6.0 and higher.

Thanks for reporting.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2016-11-14:

The attachment "fixes the crash when finding lockfiles for long names" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags:

added: patch

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2017-02-06

Changed in nano (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2017-02-14

Changed in nano (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in nano (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2017-02-14:

I've uploaded this to the -proposed queue for review by the SRU team.

Changed in nano (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee:	nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray)

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote on 2017-02-15: Please test proposed package

Hello Antti, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nano into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/2.5.3-2ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in nano (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Antti Tönkyrä (atonkyra) wrote on 2017-02-15:

Package from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/2.5.3-2ubuntu2/+build/12012329/+files/nano_2.5.3-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb worked as expected and fixes the bug described. Thanks!

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-02-22:

This bug was fixed in the package nano - 2.5.3-2ubuntu2

---------------
nano (2.5.3-2ubuntu2) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

* Apply upstream patch to allocate enough space for the prompt when finding
a lock file. (LP: #1641592)

-- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:10:03 -0800

Changed in nano (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2017-02-22: Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nano has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.