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From 37e7fb1f64b29ef06ec4d69ab0b7afa99c613383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:54:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 18/40] unchecked malloc may allow unauthed client to crash
 Xserver [CVE-2014-8091]

authdes_ezdecode() calls malloc() using a length provided by the
connection handshake sent by a newly connected client in order
to authenticate to the server, so should be treated as untrusted.

It didn't check if malloc() failed before writing to the newly
allocated buffer, so could lead to a server crash if the server
fails to allocate memory (up to UINT16_MAX bytes, since the len
field is a CARD16 in the X protocol).

Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>

Conflicts:
	os/rpcauth.c
---
 nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/rpcauth.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/rpcauth.c b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/rpcauth.c
index 3c5cb59..a12931e 100644
--- a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/rpcauth.c
+++ b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/rpcauth.c
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ authdes_ezdecode(char *inmsg, int len)
     SVCXPRT         xprt;
 
     temp_inmsg = (char *) xalloc(len);
+    if (temp_inmsg == NULL) {
+        why = AUTH_FAILED; /* generic error, since there is no AUTH_BADALLOC */
+        return NULL;
+    }
     memmove(temp_inmsg, inmsg, len);
 
     memset((char *)&msg, 0, sizeof(msg));
-- 
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