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Sec Bug #71408 Stack corruption via crafted pattern in preg_match
Submitted: 2016-01-18 15:17 UTC Modified: 2016-02-01 06:21 UTC
From: vuln-report at secur3 dot us Assigned: stas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 7.0.2 OS: Ubuntu 15.10 x64 (4.2.0-18)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-01-18 15:17 UTC] vuln-report at secur3 dot us 
Description:
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While fuzzing preg_match with afl-fuzz, I found a pattern that causes a segfault.  Examination with gdb indicates that the stack has been corrupted.  (The bt output is provided in the actual result section.

The crashing pattern was tested with a clean build of the php-7.0.2 tag from GitHub.  It was configured with defaults (./buildconf && ./configure && make) using ./sapi/cli/php as the tested binary.

Test script:
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./sapi/cli/php -r 'preg_match("/(?(199999999999999999)(()())())/","abcdef", $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);'

Expected result:
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No output should be returned

Actual result:
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Segmentation Fault

GDB Backtrace does not make sense:
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff7f66086 in ?? ()
#1  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

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 [2016-01-18 18:27 UTC] stas@php.net 
This looks like PCRE issue, I would suggest submitting it upstream.
 [2016-01-19 11:17 UTC] vuln-report at secur3 dot us 
This is already fixed upstream.  Item number 8 in the ChangeLog for 8.38 says:

8.  There was no check for integer overflow in subroutine calls such as (?123).
 [2016-02-01 06:21 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas
 [2016-02-01 06:21 UTC] stas@php.net 
The fix for this bug has been committed.

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