alpine 3.6
buffer weakness #79


Weakness Breakdown


Buffer overflows are one of the most well-known software vulnerabilities. Even though most developers know what buffer overflows are, attacks against the vulnerabilities are common in both legacy and newer applications. A classic buffer overflow exploit begins with the attacker sending data to a program, which it then stores in an undersized stack buffer. Besides stack buffer overflows, other kinds of buffer overflows include heap overflows, off-by-one errors and many others. Learn more about buffer overflows on OWASP attack index.

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The highlighted line of code below is the trigger point of this particular Alpine 3.6 buffer weakness.

		goto rm_tmp;
	/* When using get_matching_pathnames to find anon samples,
	 * the list that's returned may contain multiple entries for
	 * one or more processes; e.g.,
	 *    6868.0x100000.0x103000
	 *    6868.0xdfe77000.0xdec40000
	 *    7012.0x100000.0x103000
	 *    7012.0xdfe77000.0xdec40000
	 * So we must filter the list so there's only one entry per
	 * process.

	/* get_matching_pathnames returns only filename segment when
	 * NO_RECURSION is passed, so below, we add back the JIT
	 * dump directory path to the name.
	list_for_each_safe(pos1, pos2, &jd_fnames) {
		struct pathname * dmpfile =
			list_entry(pos1, struct pathname, neighbor);
		strncpy(jitdumpfile, jitdump_dir, PATH_MAX);
		strncat(jitdumpfile, dmpfile->name, PATH_MAX);
		rc = process_jit_dumpfile(jitdumpfile, &anon_dnames,
					  start_time, end_time, tmp_conv_dir);
		if (rc == OP_JIT_CONV_FAIL) {
			verbprintf(debug, "JIT convert error %d\n", rc);
			goto rm_tmp;
	/* Delete temporary working directory with all its files
	 * (i.e. dump and ELF file).
	sprintf(sys_cmd_buffer, "/bin/rm -rf '%s'", tmp_conv_dir);
	if (system(sys_cmd_buffer) != 0) {
		printf("opjitconv: Removing temporary working directory failed.\n");
	return rc;

static void _cleanup_jitdumps(void) 
