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mailbox synchronization program
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commit fe5d59f8e3169944e57eb1c60155c9ebd4912d48
parent e4eac03a9a2f4494840e4980603a47dc6f3c17e5
Author: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@users.sf.net>
Date:   Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:42:37 +0100

CVE-2021-20247: reject funny mailbox names from IMAP LIST/LSUB

in particular, '..' in the name could be used to escape the Path/Inbox
of a Maildir Store, which could be exploited for stealing or deleting
data, or staging a (mild) DoS attack.

Diffstat:
Msrc/drv_imap.c | 31++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/drv_imap.c b/src/drv_imap.c @@ -1258,11 +1258,12 @@ static int parse_list_rsp_p2( imap_store_t *ctx, list_t *list, char *cmd ATTR_UNUSED ) { string_list_t *narg; - char *arg; + char *arg, c; int argl, l; if (!is_atom( list )) { error( "IMAP error: malformed LIST response\n" ); + listbad: free_list( list ); return LIST_BAD; } @@ -1302,6 +1303,34 @@ parse_list_rsp_p2( imap_store_t *ctx, list_t *list, char *cmd ATTR_UNUSED ) warn( "IMAP warning: ignoring mailbox %s (reserved character '/' in name)\n", arg ); goto skip; } + // Validate the normalized name. Technically speaking, we could tolerate + // '//' and '/./', and '/../' being forbidden is a limitation of the Maildir + // driver, but there isn't really a legitimate reason for these being present. + for (const char *p = narg->string, *sp = p;;) { + if (!(c = *p) || c == '/') { + uint pcl = (uint)(p - sp); + if (!pcl) { + error( "IMAP warning: ignoring mailbox '%s' due to empty name component\n", narg->string ); + free( narg ); + goto skip; + } + if (pcl == 1 && sp[0] == '.') { + error( "IMAP warning: ignoring mailbox '%s' due to '.' component\n", narg->string ); + free( narg ); + goto skip; + } + if (pcl == 2 && sp[0] == '.' && sp[1] == '.') { + error( "IMAP error: LIST'd mailbox name '%s' contains '..' component - THIS MIGHT BE AN ATTEMPT TO HACK YOU!\n", narg->string ); + free( narg ); + goto listbad; + } + if (!c) + break; + sp = ++p; + } else { + ++p; + } + } narg->next = ctx->boxes; ctx->boxes = narg; skip: