opkg: fix use-after-free with duplicate packages on the command line

When the same package file is specified multiple times on the opkg install
command line, the name pointer on the argv array becomes stale after the
package structures have been merged, leading to invalid memory accesses
upon install.

Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>

diff --git a/package/system/opkg/Makefile b/package/system/opkg/Makefile
index 01a7d796de5f549706e909a6faea801539d2ba14..af4474254e2f1419e2f09808d3d32b1692802fa2 100644 (file)
--- a/package/system/opkg/Makefile
+++ b/package/system/opkg/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2006-2015 OpenWrt.org
+# Copyright (C) 2016 LEDE Project
 #
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/feeds.mk
 PKG_NAME:=opkg
 PKG_REV:=9c97d5ecd795709c8584e972bfdf3aee3a5b846d
 PKG_VERSION:=$(PKG_REV)
-PKG_RELEASE:=12
+PKG_RELEASE:=13
 
 PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
 PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=$(PKG_REV)

diff --git a/package/system/opkg/patches/270-fix-use-after-free.patch b/package/system/opkg/patches/270-fix-use-after-free.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..96e24b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/system/opkg/patches/270-fix-use-after-free.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/libopkg/opkg_download.c
++++ b/libopkg/opkg_download.c
+@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ opkg_prepare_url_for_install(const char
+      hash_insert_pkg(pkg, 1);
+ 
+      if (namep) {
+-        *namep = pkg->name;
++        *namep = xstrdup(pkg->name);
+      }
+      return 0;
+ }