commit 7835b00dbce53c3c87bbbb1754a95fb5e58187aa Author: Florian Weimer Date: Thu Apr 25 15:01:07 2024 +0200 CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Do not send missing not-found response in addgetnetgrentX (bug 31678) If we failed to add a not-found response to the cache, the dataset point can be null, resulting in a null pointer dereference. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar diff --git a/nscd/netgroupcache.c b/nscd/netgroupcache.c index 0a9d864109cdd8cd..d53c473c3e5139b8 100644 --- a/nscd/netgroupcache.c +++ b/nscd/netgroupcache.c @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req, /* No such service. */ cacheable = do_notfound (db, fd, req, key, &dataset, &total, &timeout, &key_copy); - goto writeout; + goto maybe_cache_add; } memset (&data, '\0', sizeof (data)); @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req, { cacheable = do_notfound (db, fd, req, key, &dataset, &total, &timeout, &key_copy); - goto writeout; + goto maybe_cache_add; } total = buffilled; @@ -411,14 +411,12 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req, } if (he == NULL && fd != -1) - { - /* We write the dataset before inserting it to the database - since while inserting this thread might block and so would - unnecessarily let the receiver wait. */ - writeout: + /* We write the dataset before inserting it to the database since + while inserting this thread might block and so would + unnecessarily let the receiver wait. */ writeall (fd, &dataset->resp, dataset->head.recsize); - } + maybe_cache_add: if (cacheable) { /* If necessary, we also propagate the data to disk. */