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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 20:37:47 -0400
From: SDA <marathon.duran...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unsolicited GNU bc patch
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 07:29:23AM +0000, Thomas DiModica wrote:

Hi, Thomas. I'd send this to the debian-developer email list rather than 
this user list. Not sure if any developers are lurking here ...

> Greetings,
> 
> I don't remember how or why I initially stumbled across this bug report 
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bc/+bug/1775776), but, given that 
> I have some familiarity with GNU bc, I decided to fix some of the issues. 
> Turns out, this also seems to fix the crashes reported here 
> (https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/28/1). I think it would 
> be a lot more useful to share this, as there isn't a lot to review. There are 
> three bug fixes and some self-defensive checks in the runtime for malformed 
> bytecode. Address Sanitizer tells me that these previously invalid memory 
> references now just leak memory. I don't appear to have broken anything in 
> the process, either.
> 
> Just trying to be somewhat helpful,
> Thomas DiModica

> From 3ecfe21c965956f3913e9bc340df729234e4453b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Thomas DiModica <ricinw...@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:28:12 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] Resolving the crashes found through fuzz testing by
>  HongxuChen.
> 
> ---
>  bc/execute.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  bc/storage.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  bc/util.c    |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bc/execute.c b/bc/execute.c
> index 256e4b7..d30c6f5 100644
> --- a/bc/execute.c
> +++ b/bc/execute.c
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ execute (void)
>         gp = functions[pc.pc_func].f_label;
>         l_gp  = label_num >> BC_LABEL_LOG;
>         l_off = label_num % BC_LABEL_GROUP;
> -       while (l_gp-- > 0) gp = gp->l_next;
> +       while ((l_gp-- > 0) && (gp != NULL)) gp = gp->l_next;
>            if (gp)
>              pc.pc_addr = gp->l_adrs[l_off];
>            else {
> @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ execute (void)
>       if ((new_func & 0x80) != 0) 
>         new_func = ((new_func & 0x7f) << 8) + byte(&pc);
>  
> +     /* Check to make sure it is valid. */
> +     if (new_func >= f_count)
> +       {
> +         rt_error ("Internal error.");
> +         break;
> +       }
> +
>       /* Check to make sure it is defined. */
>       if (!functions[new_func].f_defined)
>         {
> @@ -204,25 +211,32 @@ execute (void)
>  
>        case 'O' : /* Write a string to the output with processing. */
>       while ((ch = byte(&pc)) != '"')
> -       if (ch != '\\')
> -         out_schar (ch);
> -       else
> -         {
> -           ch = byte(&pc);
> -           if (ch == '"') break;
> -           switch (ch)
> -             {
> -             case 'a':  out_schar (007); break;
> -             case 'b':  out_schar ('\b'); break;
> -             case 'f':  out_schar ('\f'); break;
> -             case 'n':  out_schar ('\n'); break;
> -             case 'q':  out_schar ('"'); break;
> -             case 'r':  out_schar ('\r'); break;
> -             case 't':  out_schar ('\t'); break;
> -             case '\\': out_schar ('\\'); break;
> -             default:  break;
> -             }
> -         }
> +       {
> +         if (pc.pc_addr == functions[pc.pc_func].f_code_size)
> +           {
> +             rt_error ("Broken String.");
> +             break;
> +           }
> +         if (ch != '\\')
> +           out_schar (ch);
> +         else
> +           {
> +             ch = byte(&pc);
> +             if (ch == '"') break;
> +             switch (ch)
> +               {
> +               case 'a':  out_schar (007); break;
> +               case 'b':  out_schar ('\b'); break;
> +               case 'f':  out_schar ('\f'); break;
> +               case 'n':  out_schar ('\n'); break;
> +               case 'q':  out_schar ('"'); break;
> +               case 'r':  out_schar ('\r'); break;
> +               case 't':  out_schar ('\t'); break;
> +               case '\\': out_schar ('\\'); break;
> +               default:  break;
> +               }
> +           }
> +       }
>       fflush (stdout);
>       break;
>  
> diff --git a/bc/storage.c b/bc/storage.c
> index c79db82..28e933b 100644
> --- a/bc/storage.c
> +++ b/bc/storage.c
> @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ get_var (int var_name)
>      {
>        var_ptr = variables[var_name] = bc_malloc (sizeof (bc_var));
>        bc_init_num (&var_ptr->v_value);
> +      var_ptr->v_next = NULL;
>      }
>    return var_ptr;
>  }
> @@ -370,6 +371,12 @@ get_array_num (int var_index, unsigned long idx)
>    unsigned int ix, ix1;
>    int sub [NODE_DEPTH];
>  
> +  if (var_index >= a_count)
> +    {
> +      rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +      return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>    /* Get the array entry. */
>    ary_ptr = arrays[var_index];
>    if (ary_ptr == NULL)
> @@ -588,6 +595,12 @@ store_array (int var_name)
>    bc_num *num_ptr;
>    long idx;
>  
> +  if (var_name >= a_count)
> +    {
> +      rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +      return;
> +    }
> +
>    if (!check_stack(2)) return;
>    idx = bc_num2long (ex_stack->s_next->s_num);
>    if (idx < 0 || idx > BC_DIM_MAX ||
> @@ -666,6 +679,12 @@ load_array (int var_name)
>    bc_num *num_ptr;
>    long   idx;
>  
> +  if (var_name >= a_count)
> +    {
> +      rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +      return;
> +    }
> +
>    if (!check_stack(1)) return;
>    idx = bc_num2long (ex_stack->s_num);
>    if (idx < 0 || idx > BC_DIM_MAX ||
> @@ -746,6 +765,12 @@ decr_array (int var_name)
>    bc_num *num_ptr;
>    long   idx;
>  
> +  if (var_name >= a_count)
> +    {
> +      rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +      return;
> +    }
> +
>    /* It is an array variable. */
>    if (!check_stack (1)) return;
>    idx = bc_num2long (ex_stack->s_num);
> @@ -828,6 +853,12 @@ incr_array (int var_name)
>    bc_num *num_ptr;
>    long   idx;
>  
> +  if (var_name >= a_count)
> +    {
> +      rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +      return;
> +    }
> +
>    if (!check_stack (1)) return;
>    idx = bc_num2long (ex_stack->s_num);
>    if (idx < 0 || idx > BC_DIM_MAX ||
> @@ -1018,7 +1049,11 @@ process_params (program_counter *progctr, int func)
>       
>               /* Compute source index and make sure some structure exists. */
>               ix = (int) bc_num2long (ex_stack->s_num);
> -             (void) get_array_num (ix, 0);    
> +             if (get_array_num (ix, 0) == NULL)
> +               {
> +                 rt_error ("Internal Error.");
> +                 return;
> +               }
>       
>               /* Push a new array and Compute Destination index */
>               auto_var (params->av_name);  
> @@ -1049,7 +1084,6 @@ process_params (program_counter *progctr, int func)
>               else
>                 rt_error ("Parameter type mismatch, parameter %s.",
>                           v_names[params->av_name]);
> -             params++;
>             }
>         pop ();
>       }
> diff --git a/bc/util.c b/bc/util.c
> index 8eba093..5ff93e0 100644
> --- a/bc/util.c
> +++ b/bc/util.c
> @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ lookup (char *name, int  namekind)
>       {
>         if (id->v_name >= v_count)
>           more_variables ();
> -          v_names[id->v_name - 1] = name;
> +          v_names[id->v_name] = name;
>         return (id->v_name);
>       }
>        yyerror ("Too many variables");
> -- 
> 2.35.1.windows.2
> 


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