Prevent overflow of octal escape sequences The octal parser accepts the range `\1..\777`. The result is cast to `char` which will silently overflow. This commit prevents overlow and will treat `\400..\777` as invalid escape sequences.
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diff --git a/src/scanner-utils.h b/src/scanner-utils.h
index f4c799e..674ecaa 100644
--- a/src/scanner-utils.h
+++ b/src/scanner-utils.h
@@ -188,7 +188,14 @@ scanner_oct(struct scanner *s, uint8_t *out)
{
int i;
for (i = 0, *out = 0; scanner_peek(s) >= '0' && scanner_peek(s) <= '7' && i < 3; i++)
- *out = *out * 8 + scanner_next(s) - '0';
+ /* Test overflow */
+ if (*out < 040) {
+ *out = *out * 8 + scanner_next(s) - '0';
+ } else {
+ /* Consume valid digit, but mark result as invalid */
+ scanner_next(s);
+ return false;
+ }
return i > 0;
}
diff --git a/test/compose.c b/test/compose.c
index 3d45805..8c633d7 100644
--- a/test/compose.c
+++ b/test/compose.c
@@ -687,7 +687,11 @@ test_traverse(struct xkb_context *ctx)
static void
test_escape_sequences(struct xkb_context *ctx)
{
- const char *table_string = "<o> <e> : \"f\\x0o\\0o\" X\n";
+ /* The following escape sequences should be ignored:
+ * • \401 overflows
+ * • \0 and \x0 produce NULL
+ */
+ const char *table_string = "<o> <e> : \"\\401f\\x0o\\0o\" X\n";
assert(test_compose_seq_buffer(ctx, table_string,
XKB_KEY_o, XKB_COMPOSE_FEED_ACCEPTED, XKB_COMPOSE_COMPOSING, "", XKB_KEY_NoSymbol,
diff --git a/test/data/keymaps/invalid-escape-sequence.xkb b/test/data/keymaps/invalid-escape-sequence.xkb
index 99349ec..5e66f8b 100644
--- a/test/data/keymaps/invalid-escape-sequence.xkb
+++ b/test/data/keymaps/invalid-escape-sequence.xkb
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ xkb_keymap {
// must be ignored. Else it would insert a NULL character and thus
// truncates the string to "evde", while we expect "evdev+aliases(qwerty)".
xkb_keycodes { include "evde\0v+aliases(qwerty)" };
- xkb_types { include "complete" };
+ // The following include statement has two octal escape sequences that
+ // should be ignored, else they would overflow.
+ xkb_types { include "com\401ple\777te" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us" };
};