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Heap Buffer Overflow (READ of size 1) in ourWriteOut

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curl
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Reported by geeknik

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Heap Overflow
## Summary: Whilst fuzzing the curl command line tool (built from commit 779b415) with AFL, ASAN and libdislocator, a heap buffer overflow was triggered when a crafted curl configuration file was loaded. ## Steps To Reproduce: `echo "LXdAAAou" | base64 -d > test0070.conf` `./curl -q -K test0070.conf file:///dev/null` ``` ==1162==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x615000000a00 at pc 0x00000058fa99 bp 0x7ffd004d37d0 sp 0x7ffd004d37c8 READ of size 1 at 0x615000000a00 thread T0 #0 0x58fa98 in ourWriteOut /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_writeout.c:119:16 #1 0x527643 in post_per_transfer /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_operate.c:620:5 #2 0x5233a2 in serial_transfers /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_operate.c:2201:14 #3 0x5233a2 in run_all_transfers /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_operate.c:2372:16 #4 0x521e67 in operate /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_operate.c:2484:18 #5 0x51eb29 in main /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_main.c:314:14 #6 0x7f3103a021e2 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x271e2) #7 0x41c61d in _start (/root/curl/build-afl/src/curl+0x41c61d) 0x615000000a00 is located 0 bytes to the right of 512-byte region [0x615000000800,0x615000000a00) allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0x49451d in malloc (/root/curl/build-afl/src/curl+0x49451d) #1 0x55557b in file2string /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_paramhlp.c:68:14 #2 0x4fb6df in getparameter /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_getparam.c:2112:15 #3 0x5620b2 in parseconfig /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_parsecfg.c:235:13 #4 0x4f87b1 in getparameter /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_getparam.c:1826:10 #5 0x514890 in parse_args /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_getparam.c:2245:18 #6 0x5218bb in operate /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_operate.c:2423:26 SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /root/curl/build-afl/src/../../src/tool_writeout.c:119:16 in ourWriteOut ``` ## Supporting Material/References: ``` curl 7.68.0-DEV (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.68.0-DEV zlib/1.2.11 Release-Date: [unreleased] Protocols: dict file ftp gopher http imap pop3 rtsp smtp telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile libz UnixSockets ``` ## Impact Application crash plus other as yet undetermined consequences

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Heap Overflow