libio: Avoid _allocate_buffer, _free_buffer function pointers [BZ #23236]

These unmangled function pointers reside on the heap and could
be targeted by exploit writers, effectively bypassing libio vtable
validation.  Instead, we ignore these pointers and always call
malloc or free.

In theory, this is a backwards-incompatible change, but using the
global heap instead of the user-supplied callback functions should
have little application impact.  (The old libstdc++ implementation
exposed this functionality via a public, undocumented constructor
in its strstreambuf class.)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/libio/strops.c b/libio/strops.c
index eddd722c09..df8268b7ab 100644
--- a/libio/strops.c
+++ b/libio/strops.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ _IO_str_init_static_internal (_IO_strfile *sf, char *ptr, size_t size,
       fp->_IO_read_end = end;
     }
   /* A null _allocate_buffer function flags the strfile as being static. */
-  sf->_s._allocate_buffer = (_IO_alloc_type) 0;
+  sf->_s._allocate_buffer_unused = (_IO_alloc_type) 0;
 }
 
 void
@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ _IO_str_overflow (FILE *fp, int c)
 	  size_t new_size = 2 * old_blen + 100;
 	  if (new_size < old_blen)
 	    return EOF;
-	  new_buf
-	    = (char *) (*((_IO_strfile *) fp)->_s._allocate_buffer) (new_size);
+	  new_buf = malloc (new_size);
 	  if (new_buf == NULL)
 	    {
 	      /*	  __ferror(fp) = 1; */
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ _IO_str_overflow (FILE *fp, int c)
 	  if (old_buf)
 	    {
 	      memcpy (new_buf, old_buf, old_blen);
-	      (*((_IO_strfile *) fp)->_s._free_buffer) (old_buf);
+	      free (old_buf);
 	      /* Make sure _IO_setb won't try to delete _IO_buf_base. */
 	      fp->_IO_buf_base = NULL;
 	    }
@@ -182,15 +181,14 @@ enlarge_userbuf (FILE *fp, off64_t offset, int reading)
 
   size_t newsize = offset + 100;
   char *oldbuf = fp->_IO_buf_base;
-  char *newbuf
-    = (char *) (*((_IO_strfile *) fp)->_s._allocate_buffer) (newsize);
+  char *newbuf = malloc (newsize);
   if (newbuf == NULL)
     return 1;
 
   if (oldbuf != NULL)
     {
       memcpy (newbuf, oldbuf, _IO_blen (fp));
-      (*((_IO_strfile *) fp)->_s._free_buffer) (oldbuf);
+      free (oldbuf);
       /* Make sure _IO_setb won't try to delete
 	 _IO_buf_base. */
       fp->_IO_buf_base = NULL;
@@ -346,7 +344,7 @@ void
 _IO_str_finish (FILE *fp, int dummy)
 {
   if (fp->_IO_buf_base && !(fp->_flags & _IO_USER_BUF))
-    (((_IO_strfile *) fp)->_s._free_buffer) (fp->_IO_buf_base);
+    free (fp->_IO_buf_base);
   fp->_IO_buf_base = NULL;
 
   _IO_default_finish (fp, 0);