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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2019-02-04 06:31:01 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2019-02-04 06:31:13 -0800
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x86-64 memcmp: Use unsigned Jcc instructions on size [BZ #24155]
Since the size argument is unsigned. we should use unsigned Jcc
instructions, instead of signed, to check size.

Tested on x86-64 and x32, with and without --disable-multi-arch.

	[BZ #24155]
	CVE-2019-7309
	* NEWS: Updated for CVE-2019-7309.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/memcmp.S: Use RDX_LP for size.  Clear the
	upper 32 bits of RDX register for x32.  Use unsigned Jcc
	instructions, instead of signed.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/x32/Makefile (tests): Add tst-size_t-memcmp-2.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/x32/tst-size_t-memcmp-2.c: New test.
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@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
-  [Add security related changes here]
+  CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
+  size.  For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
+  has undefined behavior.  On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
+  in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
+  32 bits.  When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
+  memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
+  zero.  Reported by H.J. Lu.
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release: