#20467 [Com]: Buffer overflow returning binary

From: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:34:54 +0000
Subject: #20467 [Com]: Buffer overflow returning binary
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 ID:               20467
 Comment by:       freddy77@angelfire.com
 Reported By:      freddy77@angelfire.com
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Sybase (dblib) related
 Operating System: Linux
 PHP Version:      4.2.3
 New Comment:

I forgot. To check the issue try:

#!/home/freddy/install/bin/php -q
<?php
$db_handle = sybase_connect("server","user","pass");
sybase_select_db("tempdb", $db_handle);
$db_result = sybase_query("select convert(varbinary,space(120))");
$res = sybase_fetch_row($db_result);
print "\nres=$res[0]\n";
print sybase_num_rows($db_result);
$db_result = sybase_query("select convert(numeric(18,2),1234.89)");
$res = sybase_fetch_row($db_result);
print "\nres=$res[0]\n";
print sybase_num_rows($db_result);
?>

freddy77


Previous Comments:
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[2002-11-17 13:31:00] freddy77@angelfire.com

dbconvert convert binary -> char returning binary representation so
0x6789 (2 bytes) became '6789' (4 single byte characters)
When converting back to PHP (in ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c) you pass
the same size buffer leading to a buffer overflow.

Following patch fix problem. It also fix another problem (it remove
last characters from conversion) and avoid future possible buffer
overflows due to strange types (like UNIQUEIDs in MSSQL)

diff -r -u10 php-4.2.3/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c
php-4.2.3mod/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c
--- php-4.2.3/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c	Wed Mar  6 16:59:42 2002
+++ php-4.2.3mod/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c	Sun Nov 17 20:08:31 2002
@@ -710,49 +710,51 @@
 		/*case SYBFLT8:*/
 		case SYBREAL: {
 			Z_DVAL_P(result) = (double) floatcol(offset);
 			Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_DOUBLE;
 			break;
 		}
 		default: {
 			if (dbwillconvert(coltype(offset),SYBCHAR)) {
 				char *res_buf;
 				int res_length = dbdatlen(sybase_ptr->link,offset);
+				int src_length = res_length;
 				register char *p;
 			
 				switch (coltype(offset)) {
 					case SYBBINARY:
 					case SYBVARBINARY:
+						res_length *= 2;
+						break;
 					case SYBCHAR:
 					case SYBVARCHAR:
 					case SYBTEXT:
 					case SYBIMAGE:
 						break;
 					default:
 						/* take no chances, no telling how big the result would really
be */
 						res_length += 20;
 						break;
 				}
 
 				res_buf = (char *) emalloc(res_length+1);
 				memset(res_buf,' ',res_length+1);  /* XXX i'm sure there's a
better way
 										
        		  but i don't have sybase here to test
 										
        		  991105 thies@thieso.net  */
-				dbconvert(NULL,coltype(offset),dbdata(sybase_ptr->link,offset),
res_length,SYBCHAR,res_buf,-1);
+				dbconvert(NULL,coltype(offset),dbdata(sybase_ptr->link,offset),
src_length,SYBCHAR,res_buf,res_length);
 		
 				/* get rid of trailing spaces */
 				p = res_buf + res_length;
-				while (*p == ' ') {
+				while (*p == ' ')
 					p--;
-					res_length--;
-				}
 				*(++p) = 0; /* put a trailing NULL */
+				res_length = p - res_buf;
 		
 				Z_STRLEN_P(result) = res_length;
 				Z_STRVAL_P(result) = res_buf;
 				Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_STRING;
 			} else {
 				php_error(E_WARNING,"Sybase:  column %d has unknown data type
(%d)", offset, coltype(offset));
 				ZVAL_FALSE(result);
 			}
 		}
 	}

Frediano Ziglio



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