[v3] sprof: check pread size and offset for overflow
DJ Delorie
dj@redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 19:34:50 GMT 2025
Add a bit of descriptive paranoia to the values we read from
the ELF headers and use to access data.
---- 8< ----
v2: rewrote check math
v3: add overflow checks; avoid side effects in macros
diff --git a/elf/sprof.c b/elf/sprof.c
index c82c7c9db6..e9d2a66a4f 100644
--- a/elf/sprof.c
+++ b/elf/sprof.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <intprops.h>
/* Get libc version number. */
#include "../version.h"
@@ -410,6 +411,7 @@ load_shobj (const char *name)
int fd;
ElfW(Shdr) *shdr;
size_t pagesize = getpagesize ();
+ struct stat st;
/* Since we use dlopen() we must be prepared to work around the sometimes
strange lookup rules for the shared objects. If we have a file foo.so
@@ -550,14 +552,39 @@ load_shobj (const char *name)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("Reopening shared object `%s' failed"),
map->l_name);
+ if (fstat (fd, &st) < 0)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("stat(%s) failure"), map->l_name);
+
+ /* We're depending on data that's being read from the file, so be a
+ bit paranoid here and make sure the requests are reasonable -
+ i.e. both size and offset are nonnegative and smaller than the
+ file size, as well as the offset of the end of the data. PREAD
+ would have failed anyway, but this is more robust and explains
+ what happened better. Note that SZ must be unsigned and OFF may
+ be signed or unsigned. */
+#define PCHECK(sz1,off1) { \
+ size_t sz = sz1, end_off; \
+ off_t off = off1; \
+ if (sz > st.st_size \
+ || off < 0 || off > st.st_size \
+ || INT_ADD_WRAPV (sz, off, &end_off) \
+ || end_off > st.st_size) \
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, ERANGE, \
+ _("read outside of file extents %zu + %zd > %zu"), \
+ sz, off, st.st_size); \
+ }
+
/* Map the section header. */
size_t size = ehdr->e_shnum * sizeof (ElfW(Shdr));
shdr = (ElfW(Shdr) *) alloca (size);
+ PCHECK (size, ehdr->e_shoff);
if (pread (fd, shdr, size, ehdr->e_shoff) != size)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("reading of section headers failed"));
/* Get the section header string table. */
char *shstrtab = (char *) alloca (shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_size);
+ PCHECK (shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_size,
+ shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset);
if (pread (fd, shstrtab, shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_size,
shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset)
!= shdr[ehdr->e_shstrndx].sh_size)
@@ -585,6 +612,7 @@ load_shobj (const char *name)
size_t size = debuglink_entry->sh_size;
char *debuginfo_fname = (char *) alloca (size + 1);
debuginfo_fname[size] = '\0';
+ PCHECK (size, debuglink_entry->sh_offset);
if (pread (fd, debuginfo_fname, size, debuglink_entry->sh_offset)
!= size)
{
@@ -638,21 +666,32 @@ load_shobj (const char *name)
if (fd2 != -1)
{
ElfW(Ehdr) ehdr2;
+ struct stat st;
+
+ if (fstat (fd2, &st) < 0)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("stat(%s) failure"), workbuf);
/* Read the ELF header. */
+ PCHECK (sizeof (ehdr2), 0);
if (pread (fd2, &ehdr2, sizeof (ehdr2), 0) != sizeof (ehdr2))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
_("reading of ELF header failed"));
/* Map the section header. */
- size_t size = ehdr2.e_shnum * sizeof (ElfW(Shdr));
+ size_t size;
+ if (INT_MULTIPLY_WRAPV (ehdr2.e_shnum, sizeof (ElfW(Shdr)), &size))
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("too many section headers"));
+
ElfW(Shdr) *shdr2 = (ElfW(Shdr) *) alloca (size);
+ PCHECK (size, ehdr2.e_shoff);
if (pread (fd2, shdr2, size, ehdr2.e_shoff) != size)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
_("reading of section headers failed"));
/* Get the section header string table. */
shstrtab = (char *) alloca (shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_size);
+ PCHECK (shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_size,
+ shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_offset);
if (pread (fd2, shstrtab, shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_size,
shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_offset)
!= shdr2[ehdr2.e_shstrndx].sh_size)
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