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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-12-04 20:36:28 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2015-12-04 20:36:28 +0000
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Fix nan functions handling of payload strings (bug 16961, bug 16962).
The nan, nanf and nanl functions handle payload strings by doing e.g.:

  if (tagp[0] != '\0')
    {
      char buf[6 + strlen (tagp)];
      sprintf (buf, "NAN(%s)", tagp);
      return strtod (buf, NULL);
    }

This is an unbounded stack allocation based on the length of the
argument.  Furthermore, if the argument starts with an n-char-sequence
followed by ')', that n-char-sequence is wrongly treated as
significant for determining the payload of the resulting NaN, when ISO
C says the call should be equivalent to strtod ("NAN", NULL), without
being affected by that initial n-char-sequence.  This patch fixes both
those problems by using the __strtod_nan etc. functions recently
factored out of strtod etc. for that purpose, with those functions
being exported from libc at version GLIBC_PRIVATE.

Tested for x86_64, x86, mips64 and powerpc.

	[BZ #16961]
	[BZ #16962]
	* math/s_nan.c (__nan): Use __strtod_nan instead of constructing a
	string on the stack for strtod.
	* math/s_nanf.c (__nanf): Use __strtof_nan instead of constructing
	a string on the stack for strtof.
	* math/s_nanl.c (__nanl): Use __strtold_nan instead of
	constructing a string on the stack for strtold.
	* stdlib/Versions (libc): Add __strtof_nan, __strtod_nan and
	__strtold_nan to GLIBC_PRIVATE.
	* math/test-nan-overflow.c: New file.
	* math/test-nan-payload.c: Likewise.
	* math/Makefile (tests): Add test-nan-overflow and
	test-nan-payload.
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@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ Version 2.23
   C Library is GCC 4.7.  Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
   still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
 
+Security related changes:
+
+* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
+  depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
+  functions.  Reported by Joseph Myers.
+
 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by