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patch #10081: Unitialized data in _gnu_flush_read

Submitter:  Mikhail Barashkov <mbarashkov_gnu>
Submitted:  Sun 13 Jun 2021 06:38:52 AM UTC
Votes: 11
 
Category:  Operations on Archives Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open

Sun 13 Jun 2021 06:38:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

Unitialized buffer issue was detected using protected mode of E2K CPU, which (on hardware level) detects and blocks unitialized data usage and out-of bounds issues.

In this case, when compiled in protected mode, one of the tests failed: test 188.

It was discovered that unitialized data (record_start->buffer) was passed on to check_compressed_archive method, as it was properly allocated in init_buffer, but no data was actually read in _gnu_flush_read.

As it turned out, after rmtread is called to read data to record_start->buffer, result (obviously) can be:
status < record_size, leaving at least part of record_start->buffer unitialized.

This patch fills the unread part of buffer with zeroes. And with it all tests pass on E2K protected mode as well.

 Mikhail Barashkov <mbarashkov_gnu>

 

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Attached Files
file #51553:  gnu_flush_read_fix_unintialized_buffer.patch added by mbarashkov_gnu (636B - application/octet-stream - In this patch file, tabulation is replaced with spaces.)
file #51552:  gnu_flush_read_fix_unintialized_buffer.patch added by mbarashkov_gnu (630B - application/octet-stream)

 

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    2021-06-19 shigorin Carbon-Copy- Added shigorin
    2021-06-13 mbarashkov_gnu Attached File- Added gnu_flush_read_fix_unintialized_buffer.patch, #51553
    2021-06-13 mbarashkov_gnu Carbon-Copy- Added mbarashkov_gnu
    2021-06-13 mbarashkov_gnu Attached File- Added gnu_flush_read_fix_unintialized_buffer.patch, #51552

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