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[PATCH 01/20] packfile.c: prevent overflow in `nth_packed_object_id()`

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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Jul 12, 2023, 23:37 UTC
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In 37fec86a83 (packfile: abstract away hash constant values, 2018-05-02), `nth_packed_object_id()` started using the variable `the_hash_algo->rawsz` instead of a fixed constant when trying to compute an offset into the ".idx" file for some object position.

This can lead to surprising truncation when looking for an object towards the end of a large enough pack, like the following:

    (gdb) p hashsz
    $1 = 20
    (gdb) p n
    $2 = 215043814
    (gdb) p hashsz * n
    $3 = 5908984

, which is a debugger session broken on a known-bad call to the `nth_packed_object_id()` function.

This behavior predates 37fec86a83, and is original to the v2 index format, via: 74e34e1fca (sha1_file.c: learn about index version 2, 2007-04-09).

This is due to §6.4.4.1 of the C99 standard, which states that an untyped integer constant will take the first type in which the value can be accurately represented, among `int`, `long int`, and `long long int`.

Since 20 can be represented as an `int`, and `n` is a 32-bit unsigned integer, the resulting computation is defined by §6.3.1.8, and the (signed) integer value representing `n` is converted to an unsigned type, meaning that `20 * n` (for `n` having type `uint32_t`) is equivalent to a multiplication between two unsigned 32-bit integers.

When multiplying a sufficiently large `n`, the resulting value can exceed 2^32-1, wrapping around and producing an invalid result. Let's follow the example in f86f769550e (compute pack .idx byte offsets using size_t, 2020-11-13) and replace this computation with `st_mult()`, which will ensure that the computation is done using 64-bits.

While here, guard the corresponding computation for packs with v1 indexes, too. Though the likelihood of seeing a bug there is much smaller, since (a) v1 indexes are generated far less frequently than v2 indexes, and (b) they all correspond to packs no larger than 2 GiB, so having enough objects to trigger this overflow is unlikely if not impossible.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
---
 packfile.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c
index c2e753ef8f..89220f0e03 100644
--- a/packfile.c
+++ b/packfile.c
@@ -1920,10 +1920,10 @@ int nth_packed_object_id(struct object_id *oid,
 		return -1;
 	index += 4 * 256;
 	if (p->index_version == 1) {
-		oidread(oid, index + (hashsz + 4) * n + 4);
+		oidread(oid, index + st_add(st_mult(hashsz + 4, n), 4));
 	} else {
 		index += 8;
-		oidread(oid, index + hashsz * n);
+		oidread(oid, index + st_mult(hashsz, n));
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
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  1. 00/20 guard object lookups against 32-bit overflowTaylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  2. 01/20 packfile.c: prevent overflow in `nth_packed_object_id()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  3. 02/20 packfile.c: prevent overflow in `load_idx()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  4. Phillip WoodJul 13, 2023
  5. Taylor BlauJul 13, 2023
  6. Taylor BlauJul 14, 2023
  7. Phillip WoodJul 14, 2023
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2023
  9. Phillip WoodJul 14, 2023
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2023
  11. 03/20 packfile.c: use checked arithmetic in `nth_packed_object_offset()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  12. 04/20 midx.c: use `size_t`'s for fanout nr and allocTaylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  13. 05/20 midx.c: prevent overflow in `nth_midxed_object_oid()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  14. 06/20 midx.c: prevent overflow in `nth_midxed_offset()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  15. 08/20 midx.c: prevent overflow in `write_midx_internal()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  16. 09/20 midx.c: prevent overflow in `fill_included_packs_batch()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  17. 10/20 pack-bitmap.c: ensure that eindex lookups don't overflowTaylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  18. 11/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `write_commit_graph_file()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  19. 12/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in add_graph_to_chain()Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  20. 13/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `load_oid_from_graph()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  21. 14/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `fill_commit_graph_info()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  22. 15/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `fill_commit_in_graph()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  23. 16/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `load_tree_for_commit()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  24. 17/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `split_graph_merge_strategy()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  25. 18/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `merge_commit_graph()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  26. 19/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `write_commit_graph()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  27. 20/20 commit-graph.c: prevent overflow in `verify_commit_graph()`Taylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023
  28. 07/20 midx.c: store `nr`, `alloc` variables as `size_t`'sTaylor Blau, Jul 12, 2023

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