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author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2016-10-20 00:22:09 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2016-10-20 00:22:09 -0400 |
commit | 167dfe9672c116b315e72e57a55c7769f180dffa (patch) | |
tree | 1e89b8b2ab2cb707f77e6c043f9171988d69fcd9 /INSTALL | |
parent | 70d2687d85c314963cf280759b23fd4573ff0d82 (diff) | |
download | musl-167dfe9672c116b315e72e57a55c7769f180dffa.tar.gz |
fix integer overflows and uncaught EOVERFLOW in printf core
this patch fixes a large number of missed internal signed-overflow
checks and errors in determining when the return value (output length)
would exceed INT_MAX, which should result in EOVERFLOW. some of the
issues fixed were reported by Alexander Cherepanov; others were found
in subsequent review of the code.
aside from the signed overflows being undefined behavior, the
following specific bugs were found to exist in practice:
- overflows computing length of floating point formats with huge
explicit precisions, integer formats with prefix characters and huge
explicit precisions, or string arguments or format strings longer
than INT_MAX, resulted in wrong return value and wrong %n results.
- literal width and precision values outside the range of int were
misinterpreted, yielding wrong behavior in at least one well-defined
case: string formats with precision greater than INT_MAX were
sometimes truncated.
- in cases where EOVERFLOW is produced, incorrect values could be
written for %n specifiers past the point of exceeding INT_MAX.
in addition to fixing these bugs, we now stop producing output
immediately when output length would exceed INT_MAX, rather than
continuing and returning an error only at the end.
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