Thank you for that. Would you like to send a merge request with a fix and a
reproducer?

regards,
Nikos


On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 10:20 PM Terry Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Found a bug in the parser for Gnu libtasn1-4.9, they in the case of making
> the tokens and by that adding a "-" to the string go over the length of
> their buffer.  So the problem is using a sizeof on the buffer size and
> making the buffer too short.  Looks like two problems, this way the problem
> creeps as you grow the buffer to add room for the "-":
>
> GNU C17 (GCC) version 8.2.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>     compiled by GNU C version 8.2.0, GMP version 6.1.2, MPFR version
> 4.0.1, MPC version 1.1.0, isl version none
> GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
> Compiler executable checksum: 81f798d4ff0871f00b0a4f3f1296b20a
> ASN1.c: In function '_asn1_yyparse':
> ASN1.y:164:47: error: 'snprintf' output may be truncated before the last
> format character [-Werror=format-truncation=]
>                  | '-' NUM        {snprintf($$,sizeof($$),"-%s",$2);}
>                                                ^~~~~
> ASN1.y:164:6: note: 'snprintf' output between 2 and 66 bytes into a
> destination of size 65
>                  | '-' NUM        {snprintf($$,sizeof($$),"-%s",$2);}
>       ^          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ASN1.y:152:47: error: 'snprintf' output may be truncated before the last
> format character [-Werror=format-truncation=]
>  neg_num : '-' NUM     {snprintf($$,sizeof($$),"-%s",$2);}
>                                                ^~~~~
> ASN1.y:152:6: note: 'snprintf' output between 2 and 66 bytes into a
> destination of size 65
>  neg_num : '-' NUM     {snprintf($$,sizeof($$),"-%s",$2);}
>       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> Makefile:1112: recipe for target 'ASN1.lo' failed
>
> This looks to be more than just a warning, since it looks like the buffer
> is being over extended.
>

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