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From: donoban@riseup.net
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Segfault due short overflow in hist.c
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:46:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33435f346a37b44de507e41edf2839ff@riseup.net> (raw)

Hi,

I noticed that after expanding a big directory with 'rm -fr *' I could
crash zsh in a reproducible way. Here is the backtrace from gdb:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00005555555aa8be in hend (prog=prog@entry=0x7ffff7a5fbc8) at
hist.c:1578
#1  0x00005555555ab08f in loop (justonce=<optimized out>,
toplevel=<optimized out>) at init.c:170
#2  0x00005555555afacf in zsh_main (argc=<optimized out>,
argv=<optimized out>) at init.c:1794
#3  0x00007ffff7f809ca in libc_start_main_stage2 (main=0x55555556ad90
<main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe8c8) at src/env/__libc_start_main.c:95
#4  0x000055555556adab in _start ()

It seems that *chwords overflows with long enough strings so then it
tries to access a negative index in chline[].

I'm not sure of how it should it be properly fixed without breaking any
parts. Probably chwords should be a different type like size_t, but also
it needs some check for the next overflow scenario.

Best Regards!


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