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  • Hash : 33e6c402
    Author : Patrick Steinhardt
    Date : 2019-11-28T15:26:36 

    patch_parse: fix out-of-bounds reads caused by integer underflow

The patch format for binary files is a simple Base85 encoding with a
length byte as prefix that encodes the current line's length. For each
line, we thus check whether the line's actual length matches its
expected length in order to not faultily apply a truncated patch. This
also acts as a check to verify that we're not reading outside of the
line's string:

	if (encoded_len > ctx->parse_ctx.line_len - 1) {
		error = git_parse_err(...);
		goto done;
	}

There is the possibility for an integer underflow, though. Given a line
with a single prefix byte, only, `line_len` will be zero when reaching
this check. As a result, subtracting one from that will result in an
integer underflow, causing us to assume that there's a wealth of bytes
available later on. Naturally, this may result in an out-of-bounds read.

Fix the issue by checking both `encoded_len` and `line_len` for a
non-zero value. The binary format doesn't make use of zero-length lines
anyway, so we need to know that there are both encoded bytes and
remaining characters available at all.

This patch also adds a test that works based on the last error message.
Checking error messages is usually too tightly coupled, but in fact
parsing the patch failed even before the change. Thus the only
possibility is to use e.g. Valgrind, but that'd result in us not
catching issues when run without Valgrind. As a result, using the error
message is considered a viable tradeoff as we know that we didn't start
decoding Base85 in the first place.

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