[monitoring-plugins] plugins/check_ntp.c - Verify struct from response

Jan Wagner git at monitoring-plugins.org
Sat Jun 28 22:20:08 CEST 2014


    Module: monitoring-plugins
    Branch: master
    Commit: a04df3e1b67dc5eab3adc202cc89901f801cdeaa
    Author: Spenser Reinhardt <sreinhardt at nagios.com>
 Committer: Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org>
      Date: Sun Jun 22 14:49:25 2014 -0500
       URL: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/repositories/monitoring-plugins/commit/?id=a04df3e

plugins/check_ntp.c - Verify struct from response

Coverity 66524 - req.data is not neccessarily null terminated but still feed to printf statements. This both does that, and verifies the struct more so than before. - SR

---

 plugins/check_ntp.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/check_ntp.c b/plugins/check_ntp.c
index 0a7640a..09a923e 100644
--- a/plugins/check_ntp.c
+++ b/plugins/check_ntp.c
@@ -517,13 +517,14 @@ setup_control_request(ntp_control_message *p, uint8_t opcode, uint16_t seq){
 double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
 	int conn=-1, i, npeers=0, num_candidates=0, syncsource_found=0;
 	int run=0, min_peer_sel=PEER_INCLUDED, num_selected=0, num_valid=0;
-	int peers_size=0, peer_offset=0;
+	int peers_size=0, peer_offset=0, bytes_read=0;
 	ntp_assoc_status_pair *peers=NULL;
 	ntp_control_message req;
 	const char *getvar = "jitter";
 	double rval = 0.0, jitter = -1.0;
 	char *startofvalue=NULL, *nptr=NULL;
 	void *tmp;
+	int ntp_cm_ints = sizeof(uint16_t) * 5 + sizeof(uint8_t) * 2;
 
 	/* Long-winded explanation:
 	 * Getting the jitter requires a number of steps:
@@ -608,7 +609,15 @@ double jitter_request(const char *host, int *status){
 
 				req.count = htons(MAX_CM_SIZE);
 				DBG(printf("recieving READVAR response...\n"));
-				read(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req));
+
+				/* cov-66524 - req.data not null terminated before usage. Also covers verifying struct was returned correctly*/
+				if ((bytes_read = read(conn, &req, SIZEOF_NTPCM(req))) == -1)
+					die(STATE_UNKNOWN, _("Cannot read from socket: %s"), strerror(errno));
+				if (bytes_read != ntp_cm_ints + req.count)
+					die(STATE_UNKNOWN, _("Invalid NTP response: %d bytes read does not equal %d plus %d data segment"), bytes_read, ntp_cm_ints, req.count); 
+				/* else null terminate */
+				strncpy(req.data[req.count], "\0", 1);
+
 				DBG(print_ntp_control_message(&req));
 
 				if(req.op&REM_ERROR && strstr(getvar, "jitter")) {



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