Make BUF_strndup() read-safe on arbitrary inputs

BUF_strndup was calling strlen through BUF_strlcpy, and ended up reading
past the input if the input was not a C string.

Make it explicitly part of BUF_strndup's contract to never read more
than |siz| input bytes. This augments the standard strndup contract to
be safer.

The commit also adds a check for siz overflow and some brief documentation
for BUF_strndup().

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(cherry picked from commit 110f7b37de9feecfb64950601cc7cec77cf6130b)

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/buffer/buf_str.c b/crypto/buffer/buf_str.c
index ebc5ab4646..61024cf5ed 100644
--- a/crypto/buffer/buf_str.c
+++ b/crypto/buffer/buf_str.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include "cryptlib.h"
+#include <limits.h>
 #include <openssl/buffer.h>
 
 size_t BUF_strnlen(const char *str, size_t maxlen)
@@ -85,12 +86,18 @@ char *BUF_strndup(const char *str, size_t siz)
 
     siz = BUF_strnlen(str, siz);
 
+    if (siz >= INT_MAX)
+        return (NULL);
+
     ret = OPENSSL_malloc(siz + 1);
     if (ret == NULL) {
         BUFerr(BUF_F_BUF_STRNDUP, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
         return (NULL);
     }
-    BUF_strlcpy(ret, str, siz + 1);
+
+    memcpy(ret, str, siz);
+    ret[siz] = '\0';
+
     return (ret);
 }
 
diff --git a/crypto/buffer/buffer.h b/crypto/buffer/buffer.h
index c343dd772f..a05cee091f 100644
--- a/crypto/buffer/buffer.h
+++ b/crypto/buffer/buffer.h
@@ -86,7 +86,13 @@ int BUF_MEM_grow(BUF_MEM *str, size_t len);
 int BUF_MEM_grow_clean(BUF_MEM *str, size_t len);
 size_t BUF_strnlen(const char *str, size_t maxlen);
 char *BUF_strdup(const char *str);
+
+/*
+ * Returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of the string |str|,
+ * but guarantees to never read past the first |siz| bytes of |str|.
+ */
 char *BUF_strndup(const char *str, size_t siz);
+
 void *BUF_memdup(const void *data, size_t siz);
 void BUF_reverse(unsigned char *out, const unsigned char *in, size_t siz);