delta: fix sign-extension of big left-shift

Our delta code was originally adapted from JGit, which itself adapted it
from git itself. Due to this heritage, we inherited a bug from git.git
in how we compute the delta offset, which was fixed upstream in
48fb7deb5 (Fix big left-shifts of unsigned char, 2009-06-17). As
explained by Linus:

    Shifting 'unsigned char' or 'unsigned short' left can result in sign
    extension errors, since the C integer promotion rules means that the
    unsigned char/short will get implicitly promoted to a signed 'int' due to
    the shift (or due to other operations).

    This normally doesn't matter, but if you shift things up sufficiently, it
    will now set the sign bit in 'int', and a subsequent cast to a bigger type
    (eg 'long' or 'unsigned long') will now sign-extend the value despite the
    original expression being unsigned.

    One example of this would be something like

            unsigned long size;
            unsigned char c;

            size += c << 24;

    where despite all the variables being unsigned, 'c << 24' ends up being a
    signed entity, and will get sign-extended when then doing the addition in
    an 'unsigned long' type.

    Since git uses 'unsigned char' pointers extensively, we actually have this
    bug in a couple of places.

In our delta code, we inherited such a bogus shift when computing the
offset at which the delta base is to be found. Due to the sign extension
we can end up with an offset where all the bits are set. This can allow
an arbitrary memory read, as the addition in `base_len < off + len` can
now overflow if `off` has all its bits set.

Fix the issue by casting the result of `*delta++ << 24UL` to an unsigned
integer again. Add a test with a crafted delta that would actually
succeed with an out-of-bounds read in case where the cast wouldn't
exist.

Reported-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>
Test-provided-by: Riccardo Schirone <rschiron@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/delta.c b/src/delta.c
index 073cba7c6..8d9e6146e 100644
--- a/src/delta.c
+++ b/src/delta.c
@@ -539,10 +539,11 @@ int git_delta_apply(
 	*out = NULL;
 	*out_len = 0;
 
-	/* Check that the base size matches the data we were given;
-	* if not we would underflow while accessing data from the
-	* base object, resulting in data corruption or segfault.
-	*/
+	/*
+	 * Check that the base size matches the data we were given;
+	 * if not we would underflow while accessing data from the
+	 * base object, resulting in data corruption or segfault.
+	 */
 	if ((hdr_sz(&base_sz, &delta, delta_end) < 0) || (base_sz != base_len)) {
 		giterr_set(GITERR_INVALID, "failed to apply delta: base size does not match given data");
 		return -1;
@@ -564,19 +565,18 @@ int git_delta_apply(
 	while (delta < delta_end) {
 		unsigned char cmd = *delta++;
 		if (cmd & 0x80) {
-			/* cmd is a copy instruction; copy from the base.
-			*/
+			/* cmd is a copy instruction; copy from the base. */
 			size_t off = 0, len = 0;
 
 			if (cmd & 0x01) off = *delta++;
 			if (cmd & 0x02) off |= *delta++ << 8UL;
 			if (cmd & 0x04) off |= *delta++ << 16UL;
-			if (cmd & 0x08) off |= *delta++ << 24UL;
+			if (cmd & 0x08) off |= ((unsigned) *delta++ << 24UL);
 
 			if (cmd & 0x10) len = *delta++;
 			if (cmd & 0x20) len |= *delta++ << 8UL;
 			if (cmd & 0x40) len |= *delta++ << 16UL;
-			if (!len)		len = 0x10000;
+			if (!len)       len = 0x10000;
 
 			if (base_len < off + len || res_sz < len)
 				goto fail;
@@ -584,11 +584,11 @@ int git_delta_apply(
 			res_dp += len;
 			res_sz -= len;
 
-		}
-		else if (cmd) {
-			/* cmd is a literal insert instruction; copy from
-			* the delta stream itself.
-			*/
+		} else if (cmd) {
+			/*
+			 * cmd is a literal insert instruction; copy from
+			 * the delta stream itself.
+			 */
 			if (delta_end - delta < cmd || res_sz < cmd)
 				goto fail;
 			memcpy(res_dp, delta, cmd);
@@ -596,10 +596,8 @@ int git_delta_apply(
 			res_dp += cmd;
 			res_sz -= cmd;
 
-		}
-		else {
-			/* cmd == 0 is reserved for future encodings.
-			*/
+		} else {
+			/* cmd == 0 is reserved for future encodings. */
 			goto fail;
 		}
 	}