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-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c15
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f4d325..1bf3daa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Security related changes:
potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
+ CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
+ issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
+ attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[The release manager will add the list generated by
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c
index cc575a0..f7ddfe5 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c
@@ -133,8 +133,11 @@ helper_thread (void *arg)
(void) __pthread_barrier_wait (&notify_barrier);
}
else if (data.raw[NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN - 1] == NOTIFY_REMOVED)
- /* The only state we keep is the copy of the thread attributes. */
- free (data.attr);
+ {
+ /* The only state we keep is the copy of the thread attributes. */
+ pthread_attr_destroy (data.attr);
+ free (data.attr);
+ }
}
return NULL;
}
@@ -255,8 +258,7 @@ mq_notify (mqd_t mqdes, const struct sigevent *notification)
if (data.attr == NULL)
return -1;
- memcpy (data.attr, notification->sigev_notify_attributes,
- sizeof (pthread_attr_t));
+ __pthread_attr_copy (data.attr, notification->sigev_notify_attributes);
}
/* Construct the new request. */
@@ -270,7 +272,10 @@ mq_notify (mqd_t mqdes, const struct sigevent *notification)
/* If it failed, free the allocated memory. */
if (__glibc_unlikely (retval != 0))
- free (data.attr);
+ {
+ pthread_attr_destroy (data.attr);
+ free (data.attr);
+ }
return retval;
}