On 2/19/23 18:09, David Mudrich wrote:
> I am working on a RAM based Linux OS from source, and try to use
> latest versions of all software. I found shadow needs libbsd's
> readpassphrase(3) as superior alternative to getpass(3). While
> considering if I a) include libbsd, or include libbsd's code of
> readpassphrase(3) into shadow, found, that libbsd's readpassphrase(3)
> never returns \n or \r
> <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/tree/src/readpassphrase.c>
> line 122, while agetpass() uses a check for \n in agetpass.c line 108.
> I assume it always fails.
Indeed, it always failed. I made a mistake when writing agetpass(),
assuming that readpassphrase(3) would keep newlines.
>
> I propose a check of len == PASS_MAX - 1, with false positive error for
> exactly PASS_MAX - 1 long passwords.
Instead, I added an extra byte to the allocation to allow a maximum
password length of PASS_MAX (which is the maximum for getpass(3), which
we're replacing.
While doing that, I notice that my previous implementation also had
another bug (minor): The maximum password length was PASS_MAX - 1
instead of PASS_MAX. That's also fixed in this commit.
Reported-by: David Mudrich <dmudrich@gmx.de>
Fixes: 155c9421b935 ("libmisc: agetpass(), erase_pass(): Add functions for getting passwords safely")
Cc: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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