(-cc: my @google.com email)
Hi,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Subject: sideband: do not read beyond the end of input
>
> The caller of maybe_colorize_sideband() gives a counted buffer
> <src,n>, but the callee checked *src as if it were a NUL terminated
> buffer. If src[] had all isspace() bytes in it, we would have made
> n negative, and then (1) called number of strncasecmp() to see if
> the remaining bytes in src[] matched keywords, reading beyond the
> end of the array, and/or (2) called strbuf_add() with negative
> count, most likely triggering the "you want to use way too much
> memory" error due to unsigned integer overflow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
> ---
> sideband.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
This indeed avoids the "you want to use way too much memory" error
when I apply it.
> --- a/sideband.c
> +++ b/sideband.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static void maybe_colorize_sideband(struct strbuf *dest,
> const char *src, int n)
Not about this patch: should the 'n' parameter be a size_t instead of
an int? It doesn't matter in practice (since the caller has an int,
it can never be more than INT_MAX) but it might make the intent
clearer.
Based on inspecting the caller, using an int seems fine.
> return;
> }
>
> - while (isspace(*src)) {
> + while (0 < n && isspace(*src)) {
Yes, we need to check 'n && isspace(*src)' to avoid overflowing the
buffer if it consists entirely of spaces.
> strbuf_addch(dest, *src);
> src++;
> n--;
> @@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ static void maybe_colorize_sideband(struct strbuf *dest,
> const char *src, int n)
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(keywords); i++) {
> struct keyword_entry *p = keywords + i;
> int len = strlen(p->keyword);
> +
> + if (n <= len)
> + continue;
Using <= instead of < since we look at the character after the word as
well. Good.
> /*
> * Match case insensitively, so we colorize output from existing
> * servers regardless of the case that they use for their
> * messages. We only highlight the word precisely, so
> * "successful" stays uncolored.
> */
> if (!strncasecmp(p->keyword, src, len) && !isalnum(src[len])) {
Not about this patch: should this check "&& src[len] == ':'" instead,
as discussed upthread?
> @@ -100,8 +103,8 @@ static void maybe_colorize_sideband(struct strbuf *dest,
> const char *src, int n)
> }
> }
>
> - strbuf_add(dest, src, n);
> + if (0 < n)
> + strbuf_add(dest, src, n);
This check seems unnecessary. strbuf_add can cope fine with !n.
Should we put
assert(n >= 0);
or even
if (n < 0)
BUG();
instead, since the earlier part of the fix guarantees that n >= 0?
Thanks for the careful work. With or without such a change,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Thanks.
