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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:12:32 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r286102 - head/usr.bin/wall
Message-ID:  <201507310112.t6V1CWh8034232@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: pfg
Date: Fri Jul 31 01:12:31 2015
New Revision: 286102
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286102

Log:
  Buffer overflow in wall(1).
  
  This affected syslogd, wall and talkd.
  Detected by FORTIFY_SOURCE GSoC (with clang).
  
  Submitted by:	Oliver Pinter
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3254
  Reviewed by:	delphij, jmg
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.c

Modified: head/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.c	Fri Jul 31 00:31:52 2015	(r286101)
+++ head/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.c	Fri Jul 31 01:12:31 2015	(r286102)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ ttymsg(struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, co
 	struct iovec localiov[7];
 	ssize_t left, wret;
 	int cnt, fd;
-	static char device[MAXNAMLEN] = _PATH_DEV;
+	char device[MAXNAMLEN] = _PATH_DEV;
 	static char errbuf[1024];
 	char *p;
 	int forked;
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ ttymsg(struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, co
 	if (iovcnt > (int)(sizeof(localiov) / sizeof(localiov[0])))
 		return ("too many iov's (change code in wall/ttymsg.c)");
 
+	strlcat(device, line, sizeof(device));
 	p = device + sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1;
-	strlcpy(p, line, sizeof(device));
 	if (strncmp(p, "pts/", 4) == 0)
 		p += 4;
 	if (strchr(p, '/') != NULL) {



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