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Bug #74983 SIGABRT when function put_dbf_field is called due to a possible buffer overflow
Submitted: 2017-07-24 20:59 UTC Modified: 2019-03-31 15:48 UTC
From: enekochan at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: dbase (PECL)
PHP Version: 7.0 OS: Mac OS X
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2017-07-24 20:59 UTC] enekochan at gmail dot com
Description:
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Whe using dbase package in Mac OS X this error is raised when a record is written to disk, for example using dbase_replace_record.


Magick: abort due to signal 6 (SIGABRT) "Abort"...
Abort trap: 6

The problem (AFAIK) is due to a buffer overflow when copying the data to the disk in the put_dbf_field function in dbf_head.c file. If I change this in line 193 of dbf_head.c:

strlcpy(dbfield.dbf_name, dbf->db_fname, DBF_NAMELEN + 1);

To this:

strlcpy(dbfield.dbf_name, dbf->db_fname, DBF_NAMELEN);

Everything works fine.

I've tested this patch also in Ubuntu and CentOS and works fine even if the error does not happen there.

Test script:
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<?php
// Increase by 1 the value of NFACCLI_A column for the first row in Claves table
$field = 'NFACCLI_A'; // Column name
$recordNumber = 1;
$value = 0;
$tablePath = realpath(sprintf('./%s.dbf', 'Claves')); // Set the table name
$resource = dbase_open($tablePath, 2);
$header = dbase_get_header_info($resource);

$record = dbase_get_record_with_names($resource, $recordNumber);
if (!is_null($record) && $record) {
    if (array_key_exists($field, $record)) {
        $value = $record[$field];
    }
}

$record[$field] = $value + 1;
$result = dbase_replace_record($resource, array_values($record), $recordNumber);
dbase_close($resource);

Expected result:
----------------
No errors

Actual result:
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A SIGABORT

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 [2017-07-24 21:02 UTC] enekochan at gmail dot com
I forgot to say that even 'make' gives a warning for that buffer overflow when compiling the module:

/Users/enekochan/Downloads/dbase-7.0.0beta1/dbf_head.c:193:2: warning:
      '__builtin___strlcpy_chk' will always overflow destination buffer
      [-Wbuiltin-memcpy-chk-size]
        strlcpy(dbfield.dbf_name, dbf->db_fname, DBF_NAMELEN + 1);
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/secure/_string.h:105:3: note: expanded from macro 'strlcpy'
  __builtin___strlcpy_chk (dest, src, len, __darwin_obsz (dest))
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning generated.
 [2017-07-24 21:08 UTC] enekochan at gmail dot com
-PHP Version: Irrelevant +PHP Version: 7.0
 [2017-07-24 21:08 UTC] enekochan at gmail dot com
Affects PHP 7.0 version module
 [2017-08-07 04:14 UTC] alan_k@php.net
A patch is needed - I'm not sure there are any active developers for dbase at present.
 [2019-03-31 15:40 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2019-03-31 15:40 UTC] cmb@php.net
Indeed, this is obviously an off-by-one error, and can lead to
overflow the `dbfield.dbf_name` buffer by one char, which would be
completely harmless, though, since in this case a zero would be
written into `dbfield.dbf_type`, which already holds a zero.
 [2019-03-31 15:43 UTC] cmb@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cmb
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=347106
Log: Fix #74983: SIGABRT when function put_dbf_field is called

We fix the harmless off-by-one error to make analyzers and checkers
happy.  Unfortunately, we cannot add a reasonable test case, since the
bug would not cause malfunctions, or even be detectable by valgrind.
 [2019-03-31 15:48 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 [2021-04-06 10:18 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of 
Revision: https://github.com/php/pecl-database-dbase/commit/7bf9d87634765727417a2b402cb5e7abbb78e5c2
Log: Fix #74983: SIGABRT when function put_dbf_field is called
 
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