Ruby · Report #144485
Heap corruption in string.c tr_trans() due to undersized buffer
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2upvotes
21 Jun 2016disclosed
How it was found
(originally send by e-mail on 6 Jun 2016)
Configure with ASAN AddressSanitizer:
mkdir install; CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address" ./configure
--disable-install-doc --disable-install-rdoc --disable-install-capi
-prefix=`realpath ./install` && make -j4 && make install
Then execute:
$ ./ruby -e '"a".encode("utf-32").tr("b".encode("utf-32"),
"c".encode("utf-32"))'
=================================================================
==17122==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address
0x602000014a98 at pc 0x7ff04065cf01 bp 0x7ffdfe7629b0 sp 0x7ffdfe7629a8
WRITE of size 4 at 0x602000014a98 thread T0
...
...
The actual corruption occurs here:
6196 TERM_FILL(t, rb_enc_mbminlen(enc));
Guido