From: jvoisin <julien.voisin@dustri.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH v2] Add a safe dequeue integrity check for mallocng
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 16:58:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448715ac-5282-4345-af34-ae48a4af947f@dustri.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230916070824.124528-1-jamestiotio@gmail.com>
On 16/09/2023 09:08, James Raphael Tiovalen wrote:
> This commit adds an integrity check to allow for safer dequeuing of the
> out-of-band meta structs in mallocng. If the unlikely condition is true
> due to some sort of heap metadata corruption, we abort.
Since asserts aren't present in production code[1], I don't think that
this change is useful.
> This approach is similar to the safe unlinking check performed by glibc.
The metadata in musl's heap implementation are stored out-of-bound.
Should an attacker be able to locate and modify them, it's already game
over. Adding a `m->prev->next == m && m->next->prev == m` would only
impede attackers if they only have an arbitrary read and a one-shot
arbitrary write that can only overwrite one `meta` instead. This seems
pretty contrived (as in "unlikely) to me. Do you have any particular
scenario in mind?
1. https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/include/assert.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-16 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-16 7:08 James Raphael Tiovalen
2023-09-16 14:58 ` jvoisin [this message]
2023-09-16 16:11 ` Rich Felker
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