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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2022-04-23 14:02:17 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2022-04-23 14:02:17 +0000
commitc0ce7eb56abb536b1c8eaedec44f05b67e2bdf6a (patch)
tree103eadfb84b150845bd6e9b045b9319f07c68492
parent792b9c4c5a44280611945547a57ac9e48af5baf1 (diff)
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If the last data row of a tbl(7) contains nothing but a horizontal line,
do not skip closing the table and cleaning up memory at the end of the table in the HTML output module. This bug resulted in skipping the tblcalc() function and reusing the existing roffcol array for the next tbl(7) processed. If the next table had more columns than the one ending with a horizontal line in the last data row, uninitialized memory was read, potentially resulting in near-infinite output. The bug was introduced in rev. 1.29 (2018/11/26) but only fully exposed by rev. 1.38 (2021/09/09). Until rev. 1.37, it could only cause misformatting and invalid HTML output syntax but not huge output because up to that point, the function did not use the roffcol array. Nasty bug found the hard way by Michael Stapelberg on the production server manpages.debian.org. Michael also supplied example files and excellent instructions how to reproduce the bug, which was very difficult because no real-world manual page is known that triggers the bug by itself, so to reproduce the bug, mandoc(1) had to be invoked with at least two file name arguments.
-rw-r--r--tbl_html.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tbl_html.c b/tbl_html.c
index 7fd1c42d..57d90c4c 100644
--- a/tbl_html.c
+++ b/tbl_html.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-/* $Id: tbl_html.c,v 1.40 2022/04/14 16:43:44 schwarze Exp $ */
+/* $Id: tbl_html.c,v 1.41 2022/04/23 14:02:17 schwarze Exp $ */
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2021 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
+ * Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
* Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct tbl_span *sp)
*/
if (sp->pos != TBL_SPAN_DATA)
- return;
+ goto out;
/* Inhibit printing of spaces: we do padding ourselves. */
@@ -289,6 +290,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct tbl_span *sp)
h->flags &= ~HTML_NONOSPACE;
+out:
if (sp->next == NULL) {
assert(h->tbl.cols);
free(h->tbl.cols);