fs/tar: Initialize name in grub_cpio_find_file()

It was possible to iterate through grub_cpio_find_file() without
allocating name and not setting mode to GRUB_ARCHELP_ATTR_END, which
would cause the uninitialized value for name to be used as an argument
for canonicalize() in grub_archelp_dir().

Reported-by: B Horn <b@horn.uk>
Signed-off-by: B Horn <b@horn.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic cve-2025-jan
Gbp-Pq: Name fs-tar-Initialize-name-in-grub_cpio_find_file.patch

diff --git a/grub-core/fs/tar.c b/grub-core/fs/tar.c
index c551ed6b5209815b9fcbc09f4abca9e804f0d1c7..646bce5ebf68ac1240e9776e38a86dcc2a1f2608 100644 (file)
--- a/grub-core/fs/tar.c
+++ b/grub-core/fs/tar.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ grub_cpio_find_file (struct grub_archelp_data *data, char **name,
   int reread = 0, have_longname = 0, have_longlink = 0;
 
   data->hofs = data->next_hofs;
+  *name = NULL;
 
   for (reread = 0; reread < 3; reread++)
     {
@@ -202,6 +203,10 @@ grub_cpio_find_file (struct grub_archelp_data *data, char **name,
        }
       return GRUB_ERR_NONE;
     }
+
+  if (*name == NULL)
+    return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_FS, "invalid tar archive");
+
   return GRUB_ERR_NONE;
 }