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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4758] New: Check HTTP Content-Length parsing for overflow

Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4758

           Summary: Check HTTP Content-Length parsing for overflow
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.2.8
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: doj@xxxxxxxxx


Created an attachment (id=4634)
 --> (https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4634)
check Content-Length strtoll() for overflow in HTTP dissector

Build Information:
TShark 1.2.8

Copyright 1998-2010 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (32-bit) with GLib 2.20.3, with libpcap 1.1.1, with libz 1.2.3, with
POSIX capabilities (Linux), with libpcre 7.7, without SMI, without c-ares,
without ADNS, with Lua 5.1, with GnuTLS 2.1.8, with Gcrypt 1.4.0, without
Kerberos, without GeoIP.

Running on Linux 2.6.28.10, with libpcap version 1.1.1, GnuTLS 2.1.8, Gcrypt
1.4.0.

Built using gcc 4.3.4.
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The HTTP dissector uses strtoll() to convert the Content-Length string into a
64bit variable. But that string can contain a number larger (or less) than
64bit, which lets the strtoll() return INT_MAX (or INT_MIN). strtoll() then
indicates this with errno==ERANGE.

The attachted patch checks if errno is set this way and then treats that HTTP
Content-Length as unspecified, since we don't know the real size.

I haven't checked other occurences of strtoll() in the HTTP dissector if they
could benefit from the errno check, or if other dissectors could use it.

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