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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:03:57 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Revisiting LFS64 removal
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 08:20:05AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:09:48AM +0200, Gabriel Ravier wrote:
> > On 9/27/22 00:04, Rich Felker wrote:
> > >On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 09:03:40PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > >>[...]
> > >>Of course these interfaces should not be used, and we never intended
> > >>for them to be used just there for linking-compat. So, I've wanted to
> > >>get rid of them for a long time now.
> > >>
> > >>I believe the simplest short-term way is probably going to be just
> > >>having the dynamic linker symbol lookup error path make one final
> > >>check before bailing out with an error:
> > >>
> > >>- If the symbol to lookup ends in "64"..
> > >>- ..and it's in a hard-coded list of LFS64-compat symbols..
> > >>- ..and looking up the name with the "64" removed in libc succeeds..
> > >>
> > >>Then use the version without the "64" suffix and go on with relocation
> > >>processing.
> > >Proposed patch attached.
> > >
> > Looks at though the patch contains a buffer overflow to me, as the
> > length of `name` appears to be unbounded, but it's then copied into
> > `buf` which has its size limited to 16, all without checking for `l
> > >= sizeof buf` until after the copying is done (which might just
> > even get optimized out by GCC since it knows `l` can't be larger
> > than buf without UB occuring)
>
> Thanks for the catch! It was a late change I made to avoid
> re-iterating but indeed it's wrong. (Note that strlen, etc. can't be
> used here because external function calls or even references are not
> valid in the context this can be called in; strcmp is a macro that
> expands to a static function call.)
Updated version.
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