Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:48:42 +0400 (MSD) From: Oleg Bulyzhin <oleg@rinet.ru> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: oleg@rinet.ru Subject: bin/54288: [PATCH] sendmail coredumps (sometime) when using dns map Message-ID: <20030709224842.2E12F2EF9@lath.rinet.ru> Resent-Message-ID: <200307092250.h69MoL4n059250@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 54288
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [PATCH] sendmail coredumps (sometime) when using dns map
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 09 15:50:21 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Oleg Bulyzhin
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Cronyx Plus LLC
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD lath.rinet.ru 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 5 12:35:16 MSD 2003 root@lath.rinet.ru:/lh/obj/lh/src/sys/lath i386
Any FreeBSD version with sendmail below 8.12.9 is affected i guess.
>Description:
Only sendmail 8.12.8 (and previous) are affected. 8.12.9 has this bug
fixed.
If you are using dns maps in your sendmail.cf and have decent smtp
traffic you can see "random" sendmail crashes.
(problem was noticed on our primary mail relay which has about 300000
delivery attempts per day). If you search your maillog for crashed
sendmail pid you can see (often, but not always) error like this:
sm-mta[90653]: ERROR: DNS RDLENGTH=63885 > data len=2468
Here is explanation why this can happen:
In dns_parse_reply() sendmail builds chain of RESOURCE_RECORD_T
structures (dynamically allocating memory for them). Due to wrong
initialization of those structures, if sendmail gets bad dns reply
(with actual reply size != announced reply size), it calls
dns_free_data (sm_resolve.c:227) having rr_next field of last chain
structure filled with garbage. In dns_free_data() sendmail trying to
free allocated chain of structures: it's going through chain using
rr_next pointer and stops when rr_next == NULL. Garbage in rr_next
field cause sendmail to call free() on random addresses.
This usually cause sendmail to crash.
Theoretically (i'm not sure) this bug can lead to remote code
execution.
>How-To-Repeat:
Dont know easy ways to reproduce problem. (we need source of broken
dns replies i guess).
>Fix:
Use sm_resolve.c coming with sendmail 8.12.9 or use this patch:
--- sm_resolve.c.orig Fri Jun 28 00:43:24 2002
+++ sm_resolve.c Thu Jul 10 01:21:17 2003
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@
dns_free_data(r);
return NULL;
}
+ memset(*rr, 0, sizeof(**rr));
(*rr)->rr_domain = sm_strdup(host);
if ((*rr)->rr_domain == NULL)
{
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