commit 5b06f538c5aee0389ed034f60d90a8884d6d54de
Author: Adam Maris <amaris@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Mar 14 16:51:16 2019 -0400
malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting unsorted chunk
Fixes bug 24216. This patch adds security checks for bk and bk_nextsize pointers
of chunks in large bin when inserting chunk from unsorted bin. It was possible
to write the pointer to victim (newly inserted chunk) to arbitrary memory
locations if bk or bk_nextsize pointers of the next large bin chunk
got corrupted.
diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index 4412a4ffc83b013b..723d393f529bdb4c 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -3876,10 +3876,14 @@ _int_malloc (mstate av, size_t bytes)
{
victim->fd_nextsize = fwd;
victim->bk_nextsize = fwd->bk_nextsize;
+ if (__glibc_unlikely (fwd->bk_nextsize->fd_nextsize != fwd))
+ malloc_printerr ("malloc(): largebin double linked list corrupted (nextsize)");
fwd->bk_nextsize = victim;
victim->bk_nextsize->fd_nextsize = victim;
}
bck = fwd->bk;
+ if (bck->fd != fwd)
+ malloc_printerr ("malloc(): largebin double linked list corrupted (bk)");
}
}
else