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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:18:06 +0100
From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@...iankeil.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Buffer overflow in antiword 0.37

The attached patch prevents a buffer overflow in antiword 0.37
(http://www.winfield.demon.nl/):

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0x000000000044b55b in vName2String (szName=0x80140d58c "\"\037\202 \306!n\"n#n$n3", aucBytes=0x7fffffffde20 "\"", tNameSize=32767) at wordole.c:74
74			*pcChar = (char)aucBytes[tIndex];
(gdb) f 1
#1  0x00000000004499f2 in bGetPPS (pFile=0x800c19190, aulRootList=0x801409060, tRootListLen=4, pPPS=0x7fffffffe3b0) at wordole.c:262
262			vName2String(atPPSlist[iIndex].szName, aucBytes, tNameSize);
(gdb) l -
257				atPPSlist = xfree(atPPSlist);
258				return FALSE;
259			}
260			tNameSize = (size_t)usGetWord(0x40, aucBytes);
261			tNameSize = (tNameSize + 1) / 2;
262			vName2String(atPPSlist[iIndex].szName, aucBytes, tNameSize);
263			atPPSlist[iIndex].ucType = ucGetByte(0x42, aucBytes);
264			if (atPPSlist[iIndex].ucType == 5) {
265				iRootIndex = iIndex;
266			}
(gdb) p sizeof(atPPSlist[iIndex].szName)
$1 = 32
(gdb) p tNameSize
$2 = 32767
(gdb) l vName2String
56	/*
57	 * vName2String - turn the name into a proper string.
58	 */
59	static void
60	vName2String(char *szName, const UCHAR *aucBytes, size_t tNameSize)
61	{
62		char	*pcChar;
63		size_t	tIndex;
64	
65		fail(aucBytes == NULL || szName == NULL);
(gdb) l
66	
67		if (tNameSize < 2) {
68			szName[0] = '\0';
69			return;
70		}
71		for (tIndex = 0, pcChar = szName;
72		     tIndex < 2 * tNameSize;
73		     tIndex += 2, pcChar++) {
74			*pcChar = (char)aucBytes[tIndex];
75		}
(gdb) 
76		szName[tNameSize - 1] = '\0';
77	} /* end of vName2String */

The buffer overflow has been reported upstream and the patch was accepted,
but apparently there will not be an official antiword release any time soon.

The bug was found with afl-fuzz.

Fabian

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