[PATCH 0/2] Fix two buffer overflows

[PATCH 0/2] Fix two buffer overflows

[Zurab Kvachadze]

This little patch series fixes two memory bugs in dash. One was reported by Kate
Deplaix and the second one was accidentally found upon testing a potential fix.

Zurab Kvachadze (2):
  expand: Fix negative size parameter to memmove in subevalvar()
  expand: pmatch(): Fix buffer overread caused by passing array of chars
    as string

 src/expand.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.45.3

[PATCH 1/2] expand: Fix negative size parameter to memmove in subevalvar()

[Zurab Kvachadze]

A bug was reported on the mailing list that causes dash to segfault on
the following cmdline:

        dash -c 'echo test > "${1%.in}"' sh /tmp/META.in

This is caused by a memory corruption resulting from a bug in
scanright(). The function returns a pointer to string A, but later in
subevalvar() that pointer is subtracted from the base of string B (which
address is less than the address of A's substring). This produces a
negative integer which is later happily passed as a parameter to
memmove. The correct behaviour for the function is to return a pointer
to a substring of string B.

This erroneous behaviour is caused by the fact that under certain
conditions (FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED being undefined) scanright() iterates
over the pattern string (that the string A in the example above - startp
in the function), when it is meant to iterate over the string with
removed escapes (string B - rmesc in the function).

Due to the fact that if FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED is undefined, each for loop
iteration sets loc2 (initially pointing to str. B's end - rmescend) to
loc (initially pointing to str. A's end - endp), which is not the
desired behaviour.

This commit slightly changes the for loop header to make its behaviour
correct for any value of FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED, thus fixing the root issue.

Fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/dash/CWLP265MB4157446AD56C013BB88575CFBCA82@CWLP265MB4157.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Reported-by: Kate Deplaix
Signed-off-by: Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com>
---
 src/expand.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/expand.c b/src/expand.c
index d73f29c..171c135 100644
--- a/src/expand.c
+++ b/src/expand.c
@@ -645,8 +645,7 @@ static char *scanright(char *startp, char *endp, char *rmesc, char *rmescend,
 	char *loc;
 	char *loc2;
 
-	for (loc = endp, loc2 = rmescend;;
-	     FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED ? loc2-- : (loc2 = loc)) {
+	for (loc = endp, loc2 = rmescend;; loc--, loc2--) {
 		char *s = FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED ? loc2 : loc;
 		char c = *s;
 		unsigned ml;
@@ -660,7 +659,7 @@ static char *scanright(char *startp, char *endp, char *rmesc, char *rmescend,
 		*(FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED ? loc2 : loc) = c;
 		if (match)
 			return FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED && quotes ? loc : loc2;
-		if (--loc < startp)
+		if (loc == startp || loc2 == rmesc)
 			break;
 		if (!esc--)
 			esc = esclen(startp, loc);
-- 
2.45.3

[PATCH 2/2] expand: pmatch(): Fix buffer overread caused by passing array of chars as string

[Zurab Kvachadze]

strpbrk() accepts two null-terminated string arguments. stop[] is char
array that is not null-terminated but is still passed as a second
argument to strpbrk. This causes buffer overread, which is detected by
AddressSanitizer.

This commit adds an explicit null-terminated to the end of the array.

Signed-off-by: Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com>
---
 src/expand.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/expand.c b/src/expand.c
index 171c135..8cff60d 100644
--- a/src/expand.c
+++ b/src/expand.c
@@ -1890,7 +1890,9 @@ static __attribute__((noinline)) int ccmatch(char *p, const char *mbc, int ml,
 
 static int pmatch(char *pattern, const char *string)
 {
-	char stop[] = { 0, CTLESC, CTLMBCHAR };
+    /* stop should be null-terminated as it passed as a string to
+     * strpbrk. */
+	char stop[] = { 0, CTLESC, CTLMBCHAR, '\0' };
 	const char *q;
 	unsigned mb;
 	char *p;
-- 
2.45.3

Re: [PATCH 1/2] expand: Fix negative size parameter to memmove in subevalvar()

[Herbert Xu]

Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com> wrote:
> A bug was reported on the mailing list that causes dash to segfault on
> the following cmdline:
> 
>        dash -c 'echo test > "${1%.in}"' sh /tmp/META.in
> 
> This is caused by a memory corruption resulting from a bug in
> scanright(). The function returns a pointer to string A, but later in
> subevalvar() that pointer is subtracted from the base of string B (which
> address is less than the address of A's substring). This produces a
> negative integer which is later happily passed as a parameter to
> memmove. The correct behaviour for the function is to return a pointer
> to a substring of string B.
> 
> This erroneous behaviour is caused by the fact that under certain
> conditions (FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED being undefined) scanright() iterates
> over the pattern string (that the string A in the example above - startp
> in the function), when it is meant to iterate over the string with
> removed escapes (string B - rmesc in the function).
> 
> Due to the fact that if FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED is undefined, each for loop
> iteration sets loc2 (initially pointing to str. B's end - rmescend) to
> loc (initially pointing to str. A's end - endp), which is not the
> desired behaviour.
> 
> This commit slightly changes the for loop header to make its behaviour
> correct for any value of FNMATCH_IS_ENABLED, thus fixing the root issue.
> 
> Fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/dash/CWLP265MB4157446AD56C013BB88575CFBCA82@CWLP265MB4157.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
> Reported-by: Kate Deplaix
> Signed-off-by: Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com>
> ---
> src/expand.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, but I think this is already fixed by:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/Z81WqTBtj9TRqQzy@gondor.apana.org.au/

Cheers,
-- 
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] expand: Fix negative size parameter to memmove in subevalvar()

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 01:34:17PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Thanks, but I think this is already fixed by:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/Z81WqTBtj9TRqQzy@gondor.apana.org.au/

Actually I think it's

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=a76c0f428e64d6ccc37c066ed4d47f49b52f9ae7

which I forgot to push out.  It's out there now.

Thanks,
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] expand: pmatch(): Fix buffer overread caused by passing array of chars as string

[Herbert Xu]

Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com> wrote:
> strpbrk() accepts two null-terminated string arguments. stop[] is char
> array that is not null-terminated but is still passed as a second
> argument to strpbrk. This causes buffer overread, which is detected by
> AddressSanitizer.
> 
> This commit adds an explicit null-terminated to the end of the array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2016@gmail.com>
> ---
> src/expand.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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