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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:13:55 -0400
From: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: jason <jason@...omnia247.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug in src/stdio/fread.c

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 03:10:26PM +0200, jason wrote:
> > If you look at the code:
> >
> > size_t fread(void *restrict destv, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *restrict f)
> > {
> >       unsigned char *dest = destv;

k declared but not initialized.

> >       size_t len = size*nmemb, l = len, k;
> >       if (!size) nmemb = 0;
> >
> >       FLOCK(f);
> >
> >       f->mode |= f->mode-1;
> >
> >       if (f->rpos != f->rend) {
> >               /* First exhaust the buffer. */

k set to value.

> >               k = MIN(f->rend - f->rpos, l);
> >               memcpy(dest, f->rpos, k);
> >               f->rpos += k;
> >               dest += k;
> >               l -= k;
> >       }
> >
> >       /* Read the remainder directly */

USE of k.  If f->rpos == f->rend, k was never set before use for the
first iteration of the loop.

> >       for (; l; l-=k, dest+=k) {
> >               k = __toread(f) ? 0 : f->read(f, dest, l);
> >               if (!k) {
> >                       FUNLOCK(f);
> >                       return (len-l)/size;
> >               }
> >       }
> >
> >       FUNLOCK(f);
> >       return nmemb;
> > }
> >
> > Consider what happens when f->rpos == f->rend: k is used uninitialized.
>
> At which line?
>
> Rich

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