[PATCH 2/5] perf header: Validate string length before allocating in do_read_string()

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

do_read_string() reads a u32 length from the file and immediately
allocates that many bytes. A crafted perf.data could claim a huge
string length, triggering a large allocation that would only be freed
moments later when __do_read() rejects the read against the section
bounds.

Check len against the remaining section size before the malloc().

Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 13bbf8df15f66cab..c27ed90727ea6629 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ static char *do_read_string(struct feat_fd *ff)
 	if (do_read_u32(ff, &len))
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (len > ff->size - ff->offset)
+		return NULL;
+
 	buf = malloc(len);
 	if (!buf)
 		return NULL;
-- 
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