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Re: Bug: heap-buffer-overflow in function postprocess_terminfo


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Bug: heap-buffer-overflow in function postprocess_terminfo
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:49:12 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:44:32PM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> Version: snapshot label v6_1_20191005
> 
> POC: https://github.com/zjuchenyuan/fuzzpoc/raw/master/infotocap_poc5
> 
> ```
> # /tmp/infotocap fuzzpoc/infotocap_poc5
> =================================================================
> ==7==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x62100001b500 
> at pc 0x0000004b9e95 bp 0x7fffffffafd0 sp 0x7fffffffafc0
> READ of size 1 at 0x62100001b500 thread T0

hmm - not "heap-buffer-overflow" (that applies to writes).

This is an old bug (in logic used for compatibility with ancient
AIX terminfo), which reads past the end of a string.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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