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[PATCH 1/2] commit: reject invalid UTF-8 codepoints

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Jun 29, 2013, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20130629174023.GB226907@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

The commit code already contains code for validating UTF-8, but it does not check for invalid values, such as guaranteed non-characters and surrogates. Fix this by explicitly checking for and rejecting such characters.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 commit.c                  | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh    |  9 +++++++++
 t/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 t/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 888e02a..2280413 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@ static int find_invalid_utf8(const char *buf, int len)
 	while (len) {
 		unsigned char c = *buf++;
 		int bytes, bad_offset;
+		unsigned int codepoint;
 
 		len--;
 		offset++;
@@ -1264,24 +1265,35 @@ static int find_invalid_utf8(const char *buf, int len)
 			bytes++;
 		}
 
-		/* Must be between 1 and 5 more bytes */
-		if (bytes < 1 || bytes > 5)
+		/* Must be between 1 and 3 more bytes */
+		if (bytes < 1 || bytes > 3)
 			return bad_offset;
 
 		/* Do we *have* that many bytes? */
 		if (len < bytes)
 			return bad_offset;
 
+		/* Place the encoded bits at the bottom of the value. */
+		codepoint = (c & 0x7f) >> bytes;
+
 		offset += bytes;
 		len -= bytes;
 
 		/* And verify that they are good continuation bytes */
 		do {
+			codepoint <<= 6;
+			codepoint |= *buf & 0x3f;
 			if ((*buf++ & 0xc0) != 0x80)
 				return bad_offset;
 		} while (--bytes);
 
-		/* We could/should check the value and length here too */
+		/* Check the value here */
+		if (codepoint >= 0xd800 && codepoint <= 0xdfff)
+			return bad_offset;
+		if (codepoint > 0x10ffff)
+			return bad_offset;
+		if ((codepoint & 0x1ffffe) == 0xfffe)
+			return bad_offset;
 	}
 	return -1;
 }
diff --git a/t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh b/t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh
index 37ddabb..16ed707 100755
--- a/t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ test_expect_failure 'UTF-16 refused because of NULs' '
 	git commit -a -F "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3900/UTF-16.txt
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'UTF-8 invalid characters refused' '
+	rm -f "$HOME/stderr" &&
+	echo "UTF-8 characters" >F &&
+	git commit -a -F "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt \
+		2>"$HOME"/stderr &&
+	grep "did not conform" "$HOME"/stderr
+'
+
+rm -f "$HOME/stderr"
 
 for H in ISO8859-1 eucJP ISO-2022-JP
 do
diff --git a/t/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt b/t/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..343684d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t3900/UTF-8-invalid.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Commit message
+
+Invalid surrogate:???
-- 
1.8.3.1
Next: Junio C Hamano
Message 1 of 7 in “commit: reject invalid UTF-8 codepoints”
  1. 1/2 commit: reject invalid UTF-8 codepointsbrian m. carlson, Jun 29, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2013
  3. brian m. carlsonJun 30, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2013
  5. brian m. carlsonJul 4, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 4, 2013
  7. Peter KreftingJul 1, 2013

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