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Our delta code was originally adapted from JGit, which itself adapted it
from git itself. Due to this heritage, we inherited a bug from git.git
in how we compute the delta offset, which was fixed upstream in
48fb7deb5 (Fix big left-shifts of unsigned char, 2009-06-17). As
explained by Linus:
Shifting 'unsigned char' or 'unsigned short' left can result in sign
extension errors, since the C integer promotion rules means that the
unsigned char/short will get implicitly promoted to a signed 'int' due to
the shift (or due to other operations).
This normally doesn't matter, but if you shift things up sufficiently, it
will now set the sign bit in 'int', and a subsequent cast to a bigger type
(eg 'long' or 'unsigned long') will now sign-extend the value despite the
original expression being unsigned.
One example of this would be something like
unsigned long size;
unsigned char c;
size += c << 24;
where despite all the variables being unsigned, 'c << 24' ends up being a
signed entity, and will get sign-extended when then doing the addition in
an 'unsigned long' type.
Since git uses 'unsigned char' pointers extensively, we actually have this
bug in a couple of places.
In our delta code, we inherited such a bogus shift when computing the
offset at which the delta base is to be found. Due to the sign extension
we can end up with an offset where all the bits are set. This can allow
an arbitrary memory read, as the addition in `base_len < off + len` can
now overflow if `off` has all its bits set.
Fix the issue by casting the result of `*delta++ << 24UL` to an unsigned
integer again. Add a test with a crafted delta that would actually
succeed with an out-of-bounds read in case where the cast wouldn't
exist.
Reported-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>
Test-provided-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>
When computing the offset and length of the delta base, we repeatedly increment the `delta` pointer without checking whether we have advanced past its end already, which can thus result in an out-of-bounds read. Fix this by repeatedly checking whether we have reached the end. Add a test which would cause Valgrind to produce an error. Reported-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com> Test-provided-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>
When checking whether a delta base offset and length fit into the base we have in memory already, we can trigger an overflow which breaks the check. This would subsequently result in us reading memory from out of bounds of the base. The issue is easily fixed by checking for overflow when adding `off` and `len`, thus guaranteeting that we are never indexing beyond `base_len`. This corresponds to the git patch 8960844a7 (check patch_delta bounds more carefully, 2006-04-07), which adds these overflow checks. Reported-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>
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