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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:35:15 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in getdelim
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:25:52AM +0200, Felix Janda wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:43:39PM +0200, Felix Janda wrote:
> > > when deciding whether to resize the buffer, the terminating null byte
> > > was not taken into account
> > > ---
> > > src/stdio/getdelim.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/src/stdio/getdelim.c b/src/stdio/getdelim.c
> > > index a88c393..3077490 100644
> > > --- a/src/stdio/getdelim.c
> > > +++ b/src/stdio/getdelim.c
> > > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ssize_t getdelim(char **restrict s, size_t *restrict n, int delim, FILE *restric
> > > for (;;) {
> > > z = memchr(f->rpos, delim, f->rend - f->rpos);
> > > k = z ? z - f->rpos + 1 : f->rend - f->rpos;
> > > - if (i+k >= *n) {
> > > + if (i+k+1 >= *n) {
> > > if (k >= SIZE_MAX/2-i) goto oom;
> > > *n = i+k+2;
> > > if (*n < SIZE_MAX/4) *n *= 2;
> > > --
> > > 2.4.9
> >
> > I think you're mistaken. i+k is the space needed so far in the buffer
> > (not counting the terminating null byte) and *n is the usable space.
> > The equality case of the i+k >= *n conditional covers the need to
> > expand the buffer when the new content of length k would exactly fit
> > but would not leave room for null termination.
> >
> > Just to make sure I wrote a quick test program, which I've attached,
> > that should crash in free if the overflow occurs. It does not crash
> > and the output demonstrates correct resizing.
>
> Thanks for the test program!
>
> I did not see the 'if (z) break;'. The off-by-one should only occur
> when memchr returns 0 but the byte from getc_unlocked is the delimiter.
> (This makes it not so easy to observe the bug.)
Are you saying you still think there is a bug, that's only triggered
when the byte from getc_unlocked causes the loop to break? I'll have
to review that but it seems plausible. Do you have any ideas for
adapting the test program to check this case?
Rich
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