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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:39:29 +0100
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Pavel Cheremushkin <Pavel.Cheremushkin@...persky.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libvnc and tightvnc vulnerabilities
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 07:57:21PM +0100, Solar Designer wrote:
> https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/issues/247
>
> Upstream's fix appears to be to add casts to (uint64_t) before adding 1
> in those many malloc() calls. On platforms with larger than 32-bit
> size_t, this should be sufficient against integer overflows since the
> sizes are read from 32-bit protocol fields, but it isn't sufficient to
> prevent maliciously large memory allocation on the client by a rogue
> server. On a platform with 32-bit size_t, this isn't even sufficient to
> prevent the integer overflows. If I haven't missed anything, it'd be
> great if you open a new issue suggesting introduction of safety limits
> prior to those malloc() lines.
> [...] per the commits referenced in issue #247 above, there are many more
> instances of the "malloc(... + 1)" pattern, which were patched similarly
> incompletely.
I've just created this issue:
SECURITY: malloc((uint64_t)length + 1) is unsafe, especially on 32-bit systems
https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/issues/273
Alexander
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