Description:
xar is an easily extensible archive format.
The complete ASan output of the issue:
# xar -t -f $FILE
==5525==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x7f075cfb35f6 bp 0x7fff705167b0 sp 0x7fff70515f38 T0)
==5525==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==5525==Hint: address points to the zero page.
#0 0x7f075cfb35f5 in strlen /tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r3/work/glibc-2.23/string/../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:76
#1 0x45f5ef in __strdup /tmp/portage/sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers-4.0.0/work/compiler-rt-4.0.0.src/lib/asan/asan_interceptors.cc:562
#2 0x7f075decebc8 in xar_get_path /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xar-1.6.1-r1/work/xar-1.6.1/lib/util.c:95:8
#3 0x523f93 in print_file /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xar-1.6.1-r1/work/xar-1.6.1/src/xar.c:214:16
#4 0x513f07 in list /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xar-1.6.1-r1/work/xar-1.6.1/src/xar.c:1524:4
#5 0x513f07 in main /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xar-1.6.1-r1/work/xar-1.6.1/src/xar.c:2666
#6 0x7f075cf55680 in __libc_start_main /tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r3/work/glibc-2.23/csu/../csu/libc-start.c:289
#7 0x41af38 in _init (/usr/bin/xar+0x41af38)
AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV /tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r3/work/glibc-2.23/string/../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:76 in strlen
==5525==ABORTING
Affected version:
1.6.1
Fixed version:
N/A
Commit fix:
N/A
Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.
CVE:
CVE-2017-11125
Reproducer:
https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00287-xar-nullptr-xar_get_path
Timeline:
2017-06-17: bug discovered and reported to upstream
2017-06-28: blog post about the issue
2017-07-10: CVE assigned
Note:
This bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop.
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