Lucene search

K
osvGoogleOSV:RUSTSEC-2020-0006
HistoryMar 24, 2020 - 12:00 p.m.

Flaw in `realloc` allows reading unknown memory

2020-03-2412:00:00
Google
osv.dev
4

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.3%

When reallocing, if we allocate new space, we need to copy the old
allocation’s bytes into the new space. There are old_size number of bytes in
the old allocation, but we were accidentally copying new_size number of bytes,
which could lead to copying bytes into the realloc’d space from past the chunk
that we’re bump allocating out of, from unknown memory.

If an attacker can cause reallocs, and can read the realoced data back,
this could allow them to read things from other regions of memory that they
shouldn’t be able to. For example, if some crypto keys happened to live in
memory right after a chunk we were bump allocating out of, this could allow
the attacker to read the crypto keys.

Beyond just fixing the bug and adding a regression test, I’ve also taken two
additional steps:

  1. While we were already running the testsuite under valgrind in CI, because
    valgrind exits with the same code that the program did, if there are
    invalid reads/writes that happen not to trigger a segfault, the program can
    still exit OK and we will be none the wiser. I’ve enabled the
    --error-exitcode=1 flag for valgrind in CI so that tests eagerly fail
    in these scenarios.

  2. I’ve written a quickcheck test to exercise realloc. Without the bug fix
    in this patch, this quickcheck immediately triggers invalid reads when run
    under valgrind. We didn’t previously have quickchecks that exercised
    realloc because realloc isn’t publicly exposed directly, and instead
    can only be indirectly called. This new quickcheck test exercises realloc
    via bumpalo::collections::Vec::resize and
    bumpalo::collections::Vec::shrink_to_fit calls.

CPENameOperatorVersion
bumpaloge3.0.0
bumpalolt3.2.1

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.3%