[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common 1/3] Fix integer overflows computing sizes

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 10:41:50 UTC 2018


> 
> > On 19 Mar 2018, at 11:06, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Make code safe using both 32 and 64 bit machine.
> > Consider that this code can be compiled for machines with 32 bit.
> > There are some arrays length which are 32 bit.
> > 
> > If size_t this can cause easily an overflow. For instance message_len
> > sending SPICE_MSG_NOTIFY messages are 32 bit and code add a small
> > constant (currently 24) before doing the test for size. Now passing
> > (uint32_t) -20 as message_len would lead to a size of 4 after the
> > addition. This overflow does not happen on 64 bit machine as the length
> > is converted to size_t.
> 
> Why not use size_t instead of uint64_t then?
> 

A multiplication between 32 bit integer and a 32 bit integer can
cause overflow if the result is a 32 bit. Using a 64 bit integer
to multiply a 32 bit integer by a 32 bit integer avoids the overflow.
On 32 bit systems usually size_t is a 32 bit.

> > 
> > There are also some array length where some item are bigger than 1 byte.
> > For instance SPICE_MAIN_CHANNELS_LIST message have a number of channels
> > and each channel is composed by 2 bytes. Now the code generated try to do
> > length * 2 where length is still a 32 bit so if we put a value like
> > 0x80000002u we get 4 as length. This will cause an overflow as code will
> > allocate very few bytes but try to fill with a huge number of elements.
> > This overflow happen in both 32 and 64 bit machine.
> > 
> > To avoid all these possible overflows this patch use only 64 bit for
> > nelements (number of elements), nw_size (network size) and mem_size
> > (memory size needed) checking the sizes to avoid other overflows
> > (like pointers conversions under 32 bit machines).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > python_modules/demarshal.py | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/python_modules/demarshal.py b/python_modules/demarshal.py
> > index da87d44..7e73985 100644
> > --- a/python_modules/demarshal.py
> > +++ b/python_modules/demarshal.py
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def write_parser_helpers(writer):
> >     writer.variable_def("uint64_t", "offset")
> >     writer.variable_def("parse_func_t", "parse")
> >     writer.variable_def("void **", "dest")
> > -    writer.variable_def("uint32_t", "nelements")
> > +    writer.variable_def("uint64_t", "nelements")
> >     writer.end_block(semicolon=True)
> > 
> > def write_read_primitive(writer, start, container, name, scope):
> > @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def write_validate_switch_member(writer, mprefix,
> > container, switch_member, scop
> > 
> >             all_as_extra_size = m.is_extra_size() and want_extra_size
> >             if not want_mem_size and all_as_extra_size and not
> >             scope.variable_defined(item.mem_size()):
> > -                scope.variable_def("uint32_t", item.mem_size())
> > +                scope.variable_def("uint64_t", item.mem_size())
> > 
> >             sub_want_mem_size = want_mem_size or all_as_extra_size
> >             sub_want_extra_size = want_extra_size and not all_as_extra_size
> > @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ def write_validate_struct_function(writer, struct):
> >     scope = writer.function(validate_function, "static intptr_t", "uint8_t
> >     *message_start, uint8_t *message_end, uint64_t offset,
> >     SPICE_GNUC_UNUSED int minor")
> >     scope.variable_def("uint8_t *", "start = message_start + offset")
> >     scope.variable_def("SPICE_GNUC_UNUSED uint8_t *", "pos")
> > -    scope.variable_def("size_t", "mem_size", "nw_size")
> > +    scope.variable_def("uint64_t", "mem_size", "nw_size")
> >     num_pointers = struct.get_num_pointers()
> >     if  num_pointers != 0:
> >         scope.variable_def("SPICE_GNUC_UNUSED intptr_t", "ptr_size")
> > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ def write_validate_struct_function(writer, struct):
> > 
> >     writer.newline()
> >     writer.comment("Check if struct fits in reported side").newline()
> > -    writer.error_check("start + nw_size > message_end")
> > +    writer.error_check("nw_size > (uintptr_t) (message_end - start)")
> > 
> >     writer.statement("return mem_size")
> > 
> > @@ -264,26 +264,26 @@ def write_validate_pointer_item(writer, container,
> > item, scope, parent_scope, st
> >         # if array, need no function check
> > 
> >         if target_type.is_array():
> > -            writer.error_check("message_start + %s >= message_end" % v)
> > +            writer.error_check("%s >= (uintptr_t) (message_end -
> > message_start)" % v)
> > 
> > 
> >             assert target_type.element_type.is_primitive()
> > 
> >             array_item = ItemInfo(target_type, "%s__array" % item.prefix,
> >             start)
> > -            scope.variable_def("uint32_t", array_item.nw_size())
> > +            scope.variable_def("uint64_t", array_item.nw_size())
> >             # don't create a variable that isn't used, fixes
> >             -Werror=unused-but-set-variable
> >             need_mem_size = want_mem_size or (
> >                 want_extra_size and not item.member.has_attr("chunk")
> >                 and not target_type.is_cstring_length())
> >             if need_mem_size:
> > -                scope.variable_def("uint32_t", array_item.mem_size())
> > +                scope.variable_def("uint64_t", array_item.mem_size())
> >             if target_type.is_cstring_length():
> >                 writer.assign(array_item.nw_size(), "spice_strnlen((char
> >                 *)message_start + %s, message_end - (message_start + %s))"
> >                 % (v, v))
> >                 writer.error_check("*(message_start + %s + %s) != 0" % (v,
> >                 array_item.nw_size()))
> >             else:
> >                 write_validate_array_item(writer, container, array_item,
> >                 scope, parent_scope, start,
> >                                           True,
> >                                           want_mem_size=need_mem_size,
> >                                           want_extra_size=False)
> > -                writer.error_check("message_start + %s + %s > message_end"
> > % (v, array_item.nw_size()))
> > +                writer.error_check("%s + %s > (uintptr_t) (message_end -
> > message_start)" % (v, array_item.nw_size()))
> > 
> >             if want_extra_size:
> >                 if item.member and item.member.has_attr("chunk"):
> > @@ -321,11 +321,11 @@ def write_validate_array_item(writer, container,
> > item, scope, parent_scope, star
> >         nelements = "%s__nbytes" %(item.prefix)
> >         real_nelements = "%s__nelements" %(item.prefix)
> >         if not parent_scope.variable_defined(real_nelements):
> > -            parent_scope.variable_def("uint32_t", real_nelements)
> > +            parent_scope.variable_def("uint64_t", real_nelements)
> >     else:
> >         nelements = "%s__nelements" %(item.prefix)
> >     if not parent_scope.variable_defined(nelements):
> > -        parent_scope.variable_def("uint32_t", nelements)
> > +        parent_scope.variable_def("uint64_t", nelements)
> > 
> >     if array.is_constant_length():
> >         writer.assign(nelements, array.size)
> > @@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ def write_validate_array_item(writer, container,
> > item, scope, parent_scope, star
> >     element_nw_size = element_item.nw_size()
> >     element_mem_size = element_item.mem_size()
> >     element_extra_size = element_item.extra_size()
> > -    scope.variable_def("uint32_t", element_nw_size)
> > -    scope.variable_def("uint32_t", element_mem_size)
> > +    scope.variable_def("uint64_t", element_nw_size)
> > +    scope.variable_def("uint64_t", element_mem_size)
> >     if want_extra_size:
> > -        scope.variable_def("uint32_t", element_extra_size)
> > +        scope.variable_def("uint64_t", element_extra_size)
> > 
> >     if want_nw_size:
> >         writer.assign(nw_size, 0)
> > @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ def write_validate_container(writer, prefix, container,
> > start, parent_scope, wan
> >         sub_want_nw_size = want_nw_size and not m.is_fixed_nw_size()
> >         sub_want_mem_size = m.is_extra_size() and want_mem_size
> >         sub_want_extra_size = not m.is_extra_size() and
> >         m.contains_extra_size()
> > -        defs = ["size_t"]
> > +        defs = ["uint64_t"]
> >         name = prefix_m(prefix, m)
> >         if sub_want_nw_size:
> > 
> > @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ def read_array_len(writer, prefix, array, dest, scope,
> > is_ptr):
> >     if dest.is_toplevel() and scope.variable_defined(nelements):
> >         return nelements # Already there for toplevel, need not recalculate
> >     element_type = array.element_type
> > -    scope.variable_def("uint32_t", nelements)
> > +    scope.variable_def("uint64_t", nelements)
> >     if array.is_constant_length():
> >         writer.assign(nelements, array.size)
> >     elif array.is_identifier_length():
> > @@ -1053,9 +1053,9 @@ def write_msg_parser(writer, message):
> >     parent_scope.variable_def("SPICE_GNUC_UNUSED uint8_t *", "pos")
> >     parent_scope.variable_def("uint8_t *", "start = message_start")
> >     parent_scope.variable_def("uint8_t *", "data = NULL")
> > -    parent_scope.variable_def("size_t", "nw_size")
> > +    parent_scope.variable_def("uint64_t", "nw_size")
> >     if want_mem_size:
> > -        parent_scope.variable_def("size_t", "mem_size")
> > +        parent_scope.variable_def("uint64_t", "mem_size")
> >     if not message.has_attr("nocopy"):
> >         parent_scope.variable_def("uint8_t *", "in", "end")
> >     num_pointers = message.get_num_pointers()
> > @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ def write_msg_parser(writer, message):
> >     writer.newline()
> > 
> >     writer.comment("Check if message fits in reported side").newline()
> > -    with writer.block("if (start + nw_size > message_end)"):
> > +    with writer.block("if (nw_size > (uintptr_t) (message_end - start))"):
> >         writer.statement("return NULL")
> > 
> >     writer.newline().comment("Validated extents and calculated
> >     size").newline()
> > @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ def write_msg_parser(writer, message):
> >         writer.assign("*size", "message_end - message_start")
> >         writer.assign("*free_message", "nofree")
> >     else:
> > -        writer.assign("data", "(uint8_t *)malloc(mem_size)")
> > +        writer.assign("data", "(uint8_t *)(mem_size > UINT32_MAX ? NULL :
> > malloc(mem_size))")
> >         writer.error_check("data == NULL")
> >         writer.assign("end", "data + %s" % (msg_sizeof))
> >         writer.assign("in", "start").newline()

Frediano


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