gentoo-overlay/app-arch/tar/files/tar-1.34-fix-cve-2022-48303.patch

Gentoo Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/898176
Upstream Commit Link: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=3da78400eafcccb97e2f2fd4b227ea40d794ede8

From 3da78400eafcccb97e2f2fd4b227ea40d794ede8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:57:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix boundary checking in base-256 decoder

* src/list.c (from_header): Base-256 encoding is at least 2 bytes
long.
---
 src/list.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/list.c b/src/list.c
index 9fafc425..86bcfdd1 100644
--- a/src/list.c
+++ b/src/list.c
@@ -881,8 +881,9 @@ from_header (char const *where0, size_t digs, char const *type,
 	  where++;
 	}
     }
-  else if (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
-	   || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */)
+  else if (where <= lim - 2
+	   && (*where == '\200' /* positive base-256 */
+	       || *where == '\377' /* negative base-256 */))
     {
       /* Parse base-256 output.  A nonnegative number N is
 	 represented as (256**DIGS)/2 + N; a negative number -N is
--
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