[PATCH] libio: Avoid ptrdiff_t overflow in IO_validate_vtable

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue Jun 19 11:55:00 GMT 2018


If the candidate pointer is sufficiently far away from
__start___libc_IO_vtables, the result might not fit into ptrdiff_t.

2018-06-19  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>

	* libio/libioP.h (IO_validate_vtable): Avoid ptrdiff_t overflow.

diff --git a/libio/libioP.h b/libio/libioP.h
index 8afe7032e3..df2633d858 100644
--- a/libio/libioP.h
+++ b/libio/libioP.h
@@ -830,8 +830,8 @@ IO_validate_vtable (const struct _IO_jump_t *vtable)
   /* Fast path: The vtable pointer is within the __libc_IO_vtables
      section.  */
   uintptr_t section_length = __stop___libc_IO_vtables - __start___libc_IO_vtables;
-  const char *ptr = (const char *) vtable;
-  uintptr_t offset = ptr - __start___libc_IO_vtables;
+  uintptr_t ptr = (uintptr_t) vtable;
+  uintptr_t offset = ptr - (uintptr_t) __start___libc_IO_vtables;
   if (__glibc_unlikely (offset >= section_length))
     /* The vtable pointer is not in the expected section.  Use the
        slow path, which will terminate the process if necessary.  */



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