Refuse dbus message paths longer than BUS_PATH_SIZE_MAX limit.

Even though the dbus specification does not enforce any length limit on the
path of a dbus message, having to analyze too long strings in PID1 may be
time-consuming and it may have security impacts.

In any case, the limit is set so high that real-life applications should not
have a problem with it.

diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.c
index 40acae2..598b7f1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ bool object_path_is_valid(const char *p) {
         if (slash)
                 return false;
 
-        return true;
+        return (q - p) <= BUS_PATH_SIZE_MAX;
 }
 
 char* object_path_startswith(const char *a, const char *b) {

diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.h b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.h
index f208b29..a8d61bf 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.h
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-internal.h
@@ -332,6 +332,10 @@ struct sd_bus {
 
 #define BUS_MESSAGE_SIZE_MAX (128*1024*1024)
 #define BUS_AUTH_SIZE_MAX (64*1024)
+/* Note that the D-Bus specification states that bus paths shall have no size limit. We enforce here one
+ * anyway, since truly unbounded strings are a security problem. The limit we pick is relatively large however,
+ * to not clash unnecessarily with real-life applications. */
+#define BUS_PATH_SIZE_MAX (64*1024)
 
 #define BUS_CONTAINER_DEPTH 128