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+From 02449c3a9751f801d49a41952291a6c09a24de15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Avinal Kumar <avinal.xlvii@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 17:18:03 -0300
+Subject: [PATCH] intl: Restrict path traversal when using LANGUAGE env var [BZ
+ #17142, CVE-2026-84243]
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The fix for CVE-2014-0475 (Bug 17137) added valid_locale_name() in
+locale/findlocale.c to reject locale names containing ".." path
+components. However, the LANGUAGE environment variable processing in
+intl/dcigettext.c was not covered by that fix. An attacker who can
+set LANGUAGE (e.g. via SSH AcceptEnv) can force any gettext-using
+program to load a crafted .mo file from an arbitrary filesystem
+location via directory traversal. A crafted .mo file can crash the
+program through out-of-range offsets or through format-string
+translations that consume more arguments than the caller passes,
+causing undefined behaviour in *printf. glibc cannot fully protect
+against the latter at the gettext level. The safety of .mo files
+normally relies on them being produced by msgmerge and msgfmt -c and
+installed in read-only locations; path traversal bypasses this trust
+model.
+
+Remove the ENABLE_SECURE gate from the IS_PATH_WITH_DIR check so it
+applies to all binaries, not just SUID/SGID ones, and extend it to
+also reject the bare ".." entry which contains no directory separator
+but still names the parent directory.
+
+Add tst-gettext-path-traversal to verify that locale names containing
+path separators or equal to ".." are rejected by the LANGUAGE processing loop.
+
+This fixes bug 17142 and CVE-2026-84243.
+
+Suggested-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
+Signed-off-by: Avinal Kumar <avinal.xlvii@gmail.com>
+Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-84243
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=03067f3c5e39aec5ec250a44bc1b395a1afd45e8]
+
+Signed-off-by: João Marcos Costa (Schneider Electric) <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com>
+---
+ intl/Makefile | 4 ++
+ intl/dcigettext.c | 8 +--
+ intl/tst-gettext-path-traversal.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+ create mode 100644 intl/tst-gettext-path-traversal.c
+
+diff --git a/intl/Makefile b/intl/Makefile
+index 9b79198e68..02b217d471 100644
+--- a/intl/Makefile
++++ b/intl/Makefile
+@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ $(objpfx)plural.o: $(objpfx)plural.c
+ ifeq ($(run-built-tests),yes)
+ ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
+ ifneq ($(strip $(MSGFMT)),:)
++tests += tst-gettext-path-traversal
+ tests-special += $(objpfx)tst-translit.out $(objpfx)tst-gettext.out \
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext2.out $(objpfx)tst-codeset.out \
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext3.out
+@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ $(objpfx)tst-gettext6.out: tst-gettext6.sh $(objpfx)tst-gettext6
+ $(objpfx)tst-codeset.out: $(codeset_mo)
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext3.out: $(codeset_mo)
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext5.out: $(codeset_mo)
++$(objpfx)tst-gettext-path-traversal.out: $(codeset_mo)
+ endif
+
+ LOCALES := de_DE.ISO-8859-1 de_DE.UTF-8 en_US.ANSI_X3.4-1968 fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 \
+@@ -121,6 +123,7 @@ $(objpfx)tst-gettext4.out: $(gen-locales)
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext5.out: $(gen-locales)
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext6.out: $(gen-locales)
+ $(objpfx)tst-gettext-c-utf8.out: $(gen-locales)
++$(objpfx)tst-gettext-path-traversal.out: $(gen-locales)
+ $(objpfx)tst-translit.out: $(gen-locales)
+ endif
+
+@@ -140,6 +143,7 @@ CFLAGS-tst-gettext3.c += -DOBJPFX=\"$(objpfx)\"
+ CFLAGS-tst-gettext4.c += -DOBJPFX=\"$(objpfx)\"
+ CFLAGS-tst-gettext5.c += -DOBJPFX=\"$(objpfx)\"
+ CFLAGS-tst-gettext6.c += -DOBJPFX=\"$(objpfx)\"
++CFLAGS-tst-gettext-path-traversal.c += -DOBJPFX=\"$(objpfx)\"
+
+ ifeq ($(have-thread-library),yes)
+ ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
+diff --git a/intl/dcigettext.c b/intl/dcigettext.c
+index a028518c2a..57f422f437 100644
+--- a/intl/dcigettext.c
++++ b/intl/dcigettext.c
+@@ -684,10 +684,10 @@ DCIGETTEXT (const char *domainname, const char *msgid1, const char *msgid2,
+ *cp++ = *categoryvalue++;
+ *cp = '\0';
+
+- /* When this is a SUID binary we must not allow accessing files
+- outside the dedicated directories. */
+- if (ENABLE_SECURE && IS_PATH_WITH_DIR (single_locale))
+- /* Ingore this entry. */
++ /* Do not allow accessing files outside the dedicated
++ directories. */
++ if (IS_PATH_WITH_DIR (single_locale)
++ || strcmp (single_locale, "..") == 0)
+ continue;
+ }
+
+diff --git a/intl/tst-gettext-path-traversal.c b/intl/tst-gettext-path-traversal.c
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000000..95ad326f64
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/intl/tst-gettext-path-traversal.c
+@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
++/* Test that LANGUAGE values with path traversal are rejected [BZ #17142].
++ Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
++ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
++
++ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
++ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
++ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
++ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
++
++ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
++ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
++ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
++ Lesser General Public License for more details.
++
++ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
++ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
++ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
++
++#include <libintl.h>
++#include <locale.h>
++#include <stdlib.h>
++#include <support/check.h>
++#include <support/support.h>
++
++static const char *const domaindir = OBJPFX "domaindir";
++static const char *const localedir = OBJPFX "domaindir/de_DE";
++static const char *const msgdir = OBJPFX "domaindir/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES";
++
++static int
++do_test (void)
++{
++ unsetenv ("OUTPUT_CHARSET");
++ /* LANGUAGE is only consulted if the locale is not "C" or "C.<codeset>".
++ The catalog is in ISO-8859-1, as is the locale, so no conversion of
++ the translation takes place. */
++ xsetlocale (LC_ALL, "de_DE.ISO-8859-1");
++ textdomain ("codeset");
++
++ /* Verify that a legitimate LANGUAGE value produces the expected
++ translation. This exercises the normal lookup path and confirms
++ that the test .mo catalog is in place. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", domaindir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "de_DE", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "K\344se");
++
++ /* A bare ".." must be rejected. Without the fix this would resolve
++ to msgdir/../LC_MESSAGES/codeset.mo, which is the real catalog,
++ so the translation would succeed. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", msgdir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "..", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "cheese");
++
++ /* A relative path that leaves and re-enters the catalog directory
++ must be rejected. Without the fix this would resolve to
++ localedir/../de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/codeset.mo. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", localedir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "../de_DE", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "cheese");
++
++ /* Multiple levels of directory traversal must be rejected. Without
++ the fix this would resolve to
++ msgdir/../../de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/codeset.mo. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", msgdir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "../../de_DE", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "cheese");
++
++ /* Invalid entries in a colon-separated LANGUAGE list must be
++ skipped individually; valid entries that follow are still
++ used. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", domaindir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "..:../de_DE:de_DE", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "K\344se");
++
++ /* A path containing "/.." must be rejected. Use localedir so the
++ binding changes, which invalidates the DCIGETTEXT result cache. */
++ bindtextdomain ("codeset", localedir);
++ setenv ("LANGUAGE", "LC_MESSAGES/..", 1);
++ TEST_COMPARE_STRING (gettext ("cheese"), "cheese");
++
++ return 0;
++}
++
++#include <support/test-driver.c>
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GLIBC_GIT_URI};branch=${SRCBRANCH};name=glibc \
file://0028-CVE-2026-6238-0004.patch \
file://0029-CVE-2026-6238-0005.patch \
file://0030-CVE-2026-6238-0006.patch \
+ file://CVE-2026-84243.patch \
"
S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
B = "${WORKDIR}/build-${TARGET_SYS}"
This vulnerability, marked as High [1], was fixed upstream [2] since 2.45. Backport the fix to glibc v2.39. The only changes not included in the backport are the ones in NEWS file. [1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-84243 [2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17142 Signed-off-by: João Marcos Costa (Schneider Electric) <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com> --- .../glibc/glibc/CVE-2026-84243.patch | 193 ++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.39.bb | 1 + 2 files changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc/CVE-2026-84243.patch