Project: libevent (libevent/libevent), language: c++
Vulnerability instance: libevent.cve-2016-10197
Sanitizer: address

================= Bug Report (1/1) ==================
## Source: GitHub Issue
## URL: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/332
## Description:
Issue: libevent/libevent#332
Title: out-of-bounds read in search_make_new()
State: closed
Created by: asn-d6
Created at: 2016-03-03 15:00:09+00:00
Labels: status:confirmed

Issue Body:
Here follows a bug report by **Guido Vranken** via the _Tor bug bounty program_. Please credit Guido accordingly.
## Bug report

The DNS code of Libevent contains this rather obvious OOB read:

``` c
3122 static char *
3123 search_make_new(const struct search_state *const state, int n, const char *const base_name) {
3124     const size_t base_len = strlen(base_name);
3125     const char need_to_append_dot = base_name[base_len - 1] == '.' ? 0 : 1;
```

If the length of `base_name` is 0, then line 3125 reads 1 byte before the buffer. This will trigger a crash on ASAN-protected builds.

To reproduce:

Build libevent with ASAN:

```
$ CFLAGS='-fomit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address' ./configure && make -j4
```

Put the attached `resolv.conf` and `poc.c` in the source directory and then do:

```
$ gcc -fsanitize=address -fomit-frame-pointer poc.c .libs/libevent.a
$ ./a.out
=================================================================
==22201== ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x60060000efdf at pc 0x4429da bp 0x7ffe1ed47300 sp 0x7ffe1ed472f8
READ of size 1 at 0x60060000efdf thread T0
```

This happens because I create a zero-length string in `poc.c`:

``` c
    char* hostname = malloc(32);
    memset(hostname, 0, 32);
    //hostname[0] = 'x';
```

If you uncomment the last line, it will not crash.

Guido



Comments:
Comment by harjoc on 2016-03-03 15:16:13+00:00:
@asn-the-goblin-slayer Is the resolv.conf still to be attached ?


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Comment by asn-d6 on 2016-03-03 15:31:42+00:00:
Sure @patraulea. I attach all relevant files from Guido. Hopefully they are of use.

[resolv.txt](https://github.com/libevent/libevent/files/157060/resolv.txt)
[poc.c.txt](https://github.com/libevent/libevent/files/157063/poc.c.txt)


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Comment by azat on 2016-03-24 21:41:11+00:00:
@asn-the-goblin-slayer thanks again for a detailed report! Fixed.


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Comment by lfam on 2017-02-02 15:40:59+00:00:
This was assigned CVE-2016-10197:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/282

Attachments:
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/files/157063/poc.c.txt
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/files/157060/resolv.txt

Build script:
#!/bin/bash -eu
# Minimized build script with only core build commands
set -eu
./configure --disable-openssl
make -j$(nproc) clean
make -j$(nproc) all
make install -j$(nproc)

Dockerfile:
FROM hwiwonlee/secb.base:latest
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool cmake
RUN git clone https://github.com/libevent/libevent libevent
RUN git -C libevent checkout d7348bab602cf4dbdf65b9eeba2fb9ce4646bc0b
WORKDIR $SRC/libevent
COPY build.sh $SRC/

Additional files:
filename: parse_query_fuzzer.cc
content: // Copyright 2020 Google LLC
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>

#include "libevent/include/event2/http.h"
#include "libevent/include/event2/keyvalq_struct.h"

extern "C" int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t *data, size_t size) {
  std::string fuzz_string(reinterpret_cast<const char *>(data), size);
  struct evkeyvalq headers;
  evhttp_parse_query(fuzz_string.c_str(), &headers);
  return 0;
}