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Re: AddressSanitizer reports a heap buffer overflow from scan_node_conte


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: AddressSanitizer reports a heap buffer overflow from scan_node_contents() on malformed info file
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 20:32:21 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 05:43:55PM -0500, Nathaniel Beaver wrote:
> Steps to reproduce:
> Compile with -fsanitize=address, then run:
> 
> info -f reproduce_bug.info
> 
> Expected behavior:
> 
> info does not trigger AddressSanitizer errors.
> 
> Actual behavior:
> 
> AddressSanitizer reports a heap-buffer-overflow from scan_node_contents() in
> info/info-utils.c:1676
> 
> Comments:
> This file was generated by afl-fuzz; I don't understand how it creates a
> heap buffer overflow.

Thanks for the report; it should be fixed in commit a11612ff66.



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