paps: heap-based buffer overflow in read_file() (paps.c)

Description:
Paps is an UTF-8 to PostScript converter that makes use of pango. It provides both a stand alone command line tool as well as a library

It was discovered that a crafted/empty file is able to cause an heap-based buffer overflow.
Apparently, the project does not have release(s) since 2007 and seems to be dead, but I just discovered right now that the project has moved silently to github where the PR has been sent.

The complete ASan output:

# paps $crafted.file
=================================================================                                                                                                                                                                                                              
==30527==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x60200000dfaf at pc 0x0000004e122d bp 0x7ffd8f3dfe90 sp 0x7ffd8f3dfe88                                                                                                                                      
READ of size 1 at 0x60200000dfaf thread T0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    #0 0x4e122c in read_file /tmp/portage/app-text/paps-0.6.8-r1/work/paps-0.6.8/src/paps.c:573:7                                                                                                                                                                              
    #1 0x4e122c in main /tmp/portage/app-text/paps-0.6.8-r1/work/paps-0.6.8/src/paps.c:493                                                                                                                                                                                     
    #2 0x7fd8aff707af in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x207af)                                                                                                                                                                                                          
    #3 0x436968 in _start (/usr/bin/paps+0x436968)                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
0x60200000dfaf is located 1 bytes to the left of 4-byte region [0x60200000dfb0,0x60200000dfb4)                                                                                                                                                                                 
allocated by thread T0 here:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
    #0 0x4bdc75 in realloc (/usr/bin/paps+0x4bdc75)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
    #1 0x7fd8b111c35d in g_realloc (/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4e35d)                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /tmp/portage/app-text/paps-0.6.8-r1/work/paps-0.6.8/src/paps.c:573 read_file                                                                                                                                                   
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
  0x0c047fff9ba0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9bb0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9bc0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9bd0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9be0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
=>0x0c047fff9bf0: fa fa fa fa fa[fa]04 fa fa fa 00 02 fa fa 00 02                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9c00: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9c10: fa fa fd fa fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9c20: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 fa fa fa 00 00 fa fa fd fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9c30: fa fa fd fa fa fa fd fa fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  0x0c047fff9c40: fa fa 00 fa fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 fa                                                                                                                                                                                                              
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Heap right redzone:      fb                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Freed heap region:       fd                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Stack left redzone:      f1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Stack mid redzone:       f2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Stack right redzone:     f3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Stack partial redzone:   f4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
==30527==ABORTING

Affected version:
All versions.

Fixed version:
0.6.8-r2 (in Gentoo)

Commit fix:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-text/paps/files/paps-0.6.8-fix-empty-file.patch

Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.
This bug was fixed by Jason A. Donenfeld of Gentoo.

Timeline:
2015-06-09: bug discovered
2015-11-17: bug reported downstream (Gentoo)
2016-07-12: fixed produced downstream
2016-07-28: blog post about the issue

Note:
This bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop.

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