Greetings,

Yes, I keep spamming this trying to find an appropriate mailing list. 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. I'm not a member of any Debian mailing list, but I will try
to watch for responses.

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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