[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common 4/6] quic: Avoid possible buffer overflow in find_bucket

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Tue Oct 6 12:08:59 UTC 2020


From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com>

Proved by fuzzing the code.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Uri Lublin <uril at redhat.com>
---
 common/quic_family_tmpl.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/quic_family_tmpl.c b/common/quic_family_tmpl.c
index 8a5f7d2..6cc051b 100644
--- a/common/quic_family_tmpl.c
+++ b/common/quic_family_tmpl.c
@@ -103,7 +103,12 @@ static s_bucket *FNAME(find_bucket)(Channel *channel, const unsigned int val)
 {
     spice_extra_assert(val < (0x1U << BPC));
 
-    return channel->_buckets_ptrs[val];
+    /* The and (&) here is to avoid buffer overflows in case of garbage or malicious
+     * attempts. Is much faster then using comparisons and save us from such situations.
+     * Note that on normal build the check above won't be compiled as this code path
+     * is pretty hot and would cause speed regressions.
+     */
+    return channel->_buckets_ptrs[val & ((1U << BPC) - 1)];
 }
 
 #undef FNAME
-- 
2.26.2



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