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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 49644: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/: pr

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:23:05 -0400
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:46 PM,  <morriss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=49644
>>
>> User: morriss
>> Date: 2013/05/30 06:46 PM
>>
>> Log:
>>  (Finally!) check in part of Didier's patch to fix
>>  https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3290
>>  (TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM disables bounds errors):
>>
>>  Before calling TRY_TO_FAKE_THIS_ITEM() check if the length given (or, in
>>  the case of FT_UINT_{STRING,BYTES}, the length we retrieve from the TVB)
>>  exceeds what's left in the TVB.
>>
>>  Do this only for proto_tree_add_item() for now (it's the most commonly used
>>  and thus the biggest trouble maker in this area).
>>
>>  Similar changes for other APIs will come later (if nothing blows up).  Despite
>>  the fuzz failures this bug has caused I'm not sure about back-porting it...
>>
>> Directory: /trunk/epan/
>>   Changes    Path          Action
>>   +28 -3     proto.c       Modified
>
> Thank you for this!
>
> If we get through a round or two of fuzz-testing without any failures
> I would really like to see this backported to every stable branch
> (even 1.6). It closes an entire class of security vulnerabilities, and
> while it is a fairly non-trivial behavioural change in a hot code
> path, it is relatively short and clearly not doing anything too odd.
>
> Fingers crossed for no unexpected side-effects...
> Evan

P.S. I don't know when we're expecting 1.10 final but I think delaying
it (if necessary) in order to include this fix is fully justified.