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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-12-04 20:36:28 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-12-04 20:36:28 +0000
commit8f5e8b01a1da2a207228f2072c934fa5918554b8 (patch)
treec9d9d33b21af5a9df86f398d2d1fd6b42eee1e28 /NEWS
parent79e0d340a9e7fb2c931686462131c92b99611003 (diff)
Fix nan functions handling of payload strings (bug 16961, bug 16962).
The nan, nanf and nanl functions handle payload strings by doing e.g.: if (tagp[0] != '\0') { char buf[6 + strlen (tagp)]; sprintf (buf, "NAN(%s)", tagp); return strtod (buf, NULL); } This is an unbounded stack allocation based on the length of the argument. Furthermore, if the argument starts with an n-char-sequence followed by ')', that n-char-sequence is wrongly treated as significant for determining the payload of the resulting NaN, when ISO C says the call should be equivalent to strtod ("NAN", NULL), without being affected by that initial n-char-sequence. This patch fixes both those problems by using the __strtod_nan etc. functions recently factored out of strtod etc. for that purpose, with those functions being exported from libc at version GLIBC_PRIVATE. Tested for x86_64, x86, mips64 and powerpc. [BZ #16961] [BZ #16962] * math/s_nan.c (__nan): Use __strtod_nan instead of constructing a string on the stack for strtod. * math/s_nanf.c (__nanf): Use __strtof_nan instead of constructing a string on the stack for strtof. * math/s_nanl.c (__nanl): Use __strtold_nan instead of constructing a string on the stack for strtold. * stdlib/Versions (libc): Add __strtof_nan, __strtod_nan and __strtold_nan to GLIBC_PRIVATE. * math/test-nan-overflow.c: New file. * math/test-nan-payload.c: Likewise. * math/Makefile (tests): Add test-nan-overflow and test-nan-payload.
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@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ Version 2.23
C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
+Security related changes:
+
+* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
+ depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
+ functions. Reported by Joseph Myers.
+
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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