[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] selinux: fix potential double free crash in child process

Michal Sekletar msekleta at redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 07:57:12 PDT 2014


Before returning from function we should reset ret to NULL, thus cleanup
function is nop.

Also context_str() returns pointer to a string containing context but not a
copy, hence we must make copy it explicitly.
---
 src/shared/label.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/shared/label.c b/src/shared/label.c
index b6af38d..89fb49e 100644
--- a/src/shared/label.c
+++ b/src/shared/label.c
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ int label_get_child_mls_label(int socket_fd, const char *exe, char **label) {
         }
 
         freecon(mycon);
-        mycon = context_str(bcon);
+        mycon = NULL;
+        mycon = strdup(context_str(bcon));
         if (!mycon) {
                 r = -errno;
                 goto out;
@@ -348,6 +349,7 @@ int label_get_child_mls_label(int socket_fd, const char *exe, char **label) {
         }
 
         *label = ret;
+        ret = NULL;
         r = 0;
 
 out:
-- 
1.8.3.1



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