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+Fix CVE-2014-7817: wordexp fails to honour WRDE_NOCMD.
+
+Note: Here the ChangeLog and NEWS updates are removed from Carlos's
+      patch, since they depend on other earlier commits.
+
+From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:44:12 +0000 (-0500)
+Subject: CVE-2014-7817: wordexp fails to honour WRDE_NOCMD.
+X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=33ceaf6187b31ea15284ac65131749e1cb68d2ae
+
+CVE-2014-7817: wordexp fails to honour WRDE_NOCMD.
+
+The function wordexp() fails to properly handle the WRDE_NOCMD
+flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of "$((... ``))"
+where "..." can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic
+epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDE_NOCMD forbade
+command substitution. This allows an attacker to attempt to pass
+dangerous commands via constructs of the above form, and bypass
+the WRDE_NOCMD flag. This patch fixes this by checking for WRDE_NOCMD
+in exec_comm(), the only place that can execute a shell. All other
+checks for WRDE_NOCMD are superfluous and removed.
+
+We expand the testsuite and add 3 new regression tests of roughly
+the same form but with a couple of nested levels.
+
+On top of the 3 new tests we add fork validation to the WRDE_NOCMD
+testing. If any forks are detected during the execution of a wordexp()
+call with WRDE_NOCMD, the test is marked as failed. This is slightly
+heuristic since vfork might be used in the future, but it provides a
+higher level of assurance that no shells were executed as part of
+command substitution with WRDE_NOCMD in effect. In addition it doesn't
+require libpthread or libdl, instead we use the public implementation
+namespace function __register_atfork (already part of the public ABI
+for libpthread).
+
+Tested on x86_64 with no regressions.
+
+(cherry picked from commit a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c)
+---
+
+diff --git a/posix/wordexp-test.c b/posix/wordexp-test.c
+index 4957006..bdd65e4 100644
+--- a/posix/wordexp-test.c
++++ b/posix/wordexp-test.c
+@@ -27,6 +27,25 @@
+ 
+ #define IFS " \n\t"
+ 
++extern void *__dso_handle __attribute__ ((__weak__, __visibility__ ("hidden")));
++extern int __register_atfork (void (*) (void), void (*) (void), void (*) (void), void *);
++
++static int __app_register_atfork (void (*prepare) (void), void (*parent) (void), void (*child) (void))
++{
++  return __register_atfork (prepare, parent, child,
++			    &__dso_handle == NULL ? NULL : __dso_handle);
++}
++
++/* Number of forks seen.  */
++static int registered_forks;
++
++/* For each fork increment the fork count.  */
++static void
++register_fork (void)
++{
++  registered_forks++;
++}
++
+ struct test_case_struct
+ {
+   int retval;
+@@ -206,6 +225,12 @@ struct test_case_struct
+     { WRDE_SYNTAX, NULL, "$((2+))", 0, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
+     { WRDE_SYNTAX, NULL, "`", 0, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
+     { WRDE_SYNTAX, NULL, "$((010+4+))", 0, 0, { NULL }, IFS },
++    /* Test for CVE-2014-7817. We test 3 combinations of command
++       substitution inside an arithmetic expression to make sure that
++       no commands are executed and error is returned.  */
++    { WRDE_CMDSUB, NULL, "$((`echo 1`))", WRDE_NOCMD, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
++    { WRDE_CMDSUB, NULL, "$((1+`echo 1`))", WRDE_NOCMD, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
++    { WRDE_CMDSUB, NULL, "$((1+$((`echo 1`))))", WRDE_NOCMD, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
+ 
+     { -1, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, { NULL, }, IFS },
+   };
+@@ -258,6 +283,15 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ 	  return -1;
+     }
+ 
++  /* If we are not allowed to do command substitution, we install
++     fork handlers to verify that no forks happened.  No forks should
++     happen at all if command substitution is disabled.  */
++  if (__app_register_atfork (register_fork, NULL, NULL) != 0)
++    {
++      printf ("Failed to register fork handler.\n");
++      return -1;
++    }
++
+   for (test = 0; test_case[test].retval != -1; test++)
+     if (testit (&test_case[test]))
+       ++fail;
+@@ -367,6 +401,9 @@ testit (struct test_case_struct *tc)
+ 
+   printf ("Test %d (%s): ", ++tests, tc->words);
+ 
++  if (tc->flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
++    registered_forks = 0;
++
+   if (tc->flags & WRDE_APPEND)
+     {
+       /* initial wordexp() call, to be appended to */
+@@ -378,6 +415,13 @@ testit (struct test_case_struct *tc)
+     }
+   retval = wordexp (tc->words, &we, tc->flags);
+ 
++  if ((tc->flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
++      && (registered_forks > 0))
++    {
++	  printf ("FAILED fork called for WRDE_NOCMD\n");
++	  return 1;
++    }
++
+   if (tc->flags & WRDE_DOOFFS)
+       start_offs = sav_we.we_offs;
+ 
+diff --git a/posix/wordexp.c b/posix/wordexp.c
+index b6b65dd..26f3a26 100644
+--- a/posix/wordexp.c
++++ b/posix/wordexp.c
+@@ -893,6 +893,10 @@ exec_comm (char *comm, char **word, size_t *word_length, size_t *max_length,
+   pid_t pid;
+   int noexec = 0;
+ 
++  /* Do nothing if command substitution should not succeed.  */
++  if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
++    return WRDE_CMDSUB;
++
+   /* Don't fork() unless necessary */
+   if (!comm || !*comm)
+     return 0;
+@@ -2082,9 +2086,6 @@ parse_dollars (char **word, size_t *word_length, size_t *max_length,
+ 	    }
+ 	}
+ 
+-      if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
+-	return WRDE_CMDSUB;
+-
+       (*offset) += 2;
+       return parse_comm (word, word_length, max_length, words, offset, flags,
+ 			 quoted? NULL : pwordexp, ifs, ifs_white);
+@@ -2196,9 +2197,6 @@ parse_dquote (char **word, size_t *word_length, size_t *max_length,
+ 	  break;
+ 
+ 	case '`':
+-	  if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
+-	    return WRDE_CMDSUB;
+-
+ 	  ++(*offset);
+ 	  error = parse_backtick (word, word_length, max_length, words,
+ 				  offset, flags, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+@@ -2357,12 +2355,6 @@ wordexp (const char *words, wordexp_t *pwordexp, int flags)
+ 	break;
+ 
+       case '`':
+-	if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD)
+-	  {
+-	    error = WRDE_CMDSUB;
+-	    goto do_error;
+-	  }
+-
+ 	++words_offset;
+ 	error = parse_backtick (&word, &word_length, &max_length, words,
+ 				&words_offset, flags, pwordexp, ifs,