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CVE-2022-44318 PoC — PicoC 缓冲区错误漏洞

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Associated Vulnerability
Title:PicoC 缓冲区错误漏洞 (CVE-2022-44318)
Description:PicoC Version 3.2.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the StringStrcat function in cstdlib/string.c when called from ExpressionParseFunctionCall.
Description
Proof of concept for CVE-2022-44318
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# Description of CVE-2022-44318

PicoC Version 3.2.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the StringStrcat function in cstdlib/string.c when called from ExpressionParseFunctionCall.  Any project or library that uses Picoc also suffers from this issue. An example of this would be [picoc-js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/picoc-js).

### Setting up our environment

To replicate the heap overflow vulnerability in PicoC, we must first download and compile a vulnerable version (v3.2.2) of the PicoC library and interpreter:

```
git clone https://github.com/jpoirier/picoc.git
cd picoc
git checkout a97d94fa3d4d35c6b78b7de69faac7643e34de22
make
```

# Reproduction Steps

Execute the interpreter in script mode against the **StringStrcat_heap_overflow.c** file included in this repository:

```
$ ./picoc -s StringStrcat_heap_overflow.c
```

You will receive a segfault and the program will crash. This is a result of a heap overflow that is not caught or handled by the library or interpreter.  We can recompile the project with address sanitizer (ASAN) to give us a better idea of where this is taking place.  Let's add *-fsanitize=address* to the CFLAGS variable in the Makefile and recompile the library:

```
CFLAGS=-Wall -g -std=gnu11 -pedantic -DUNIX_HOST -DVER=\"`git show-ref --abbrev=8 --head --hash head`\" -DTAG=\"`git describe --abbrev=0 --tags`\" -fsanitize=address
```

Recompile the library and interpreter (from the root picoc directory):

```
make clean
make
```

When we execute our program, we get the following output from ASAN showing us that the heap buffer overflow takes place in *StringStrcat cstdlib/string.c, line 40*:

### ASAN output:
```
==308939==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x606000000892 at pc 0x7f489c03a590 bp 0x7ffc052778f0 sp 0x7ffc052770a0
WRITE of size 26 at 0x606000000892 thread T0
    #0 0x7f489c03a58f in __interceptor_strcat ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:392
    #1 0x55facf0eb418 in StringStrcat cstdlib/string.c:40
    #2 0x55facf0d4edd in ExpressionParseFunctionCall /dev/shm/picoc/expression.c:1909
    #3 0x55facf0d237c in ExpressionParse /dev/shm/picoc/expression.c:1607
    #4 0x55facf0c66a0 in ParseStatement /dev/shm/picoc/parse.c:646
    #5 0x55facf0c8380 in PicocParse /dev/shm/picoc/parse.c:897
    #6 0x55facf0e0d0e in PicocPlatformScanFile platform/platform_unix.c:129
    #7 0x55facf0b7213 in main /dev/shm/picoc/picoc.c:62
    #8 0x7f489be46189 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
    #9 0x7f489be46244 in __libc_start_main_impl ../csu/libc-start.c:381
    #10 0x55facf0b6d40 in _start (/dev/shm/picoc/picoc+0x16d40)

0x606000000892 is located 0 bytes to the right of 50-byte region [0x606000000860,0x606000000892)
allocated by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7f489c0ae987 in __interceptor_calloc ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:154
    #1 0x55facf0d5b80 in HeapAllocMem /dev/shm/picoc/heap.c:127
    #2 0x55facf0da3a9 in VariableAlloc /dev/shm/picoc/variable.c:77
    #3 0x55facf0da429 in VariableAllocValueAndData /dev/shm/picoc/variable.c:97
    #4 0x55facf0da701 in VariableAllocValueFromType /dev/shm/picoc/variable.c:119
    #5 0x55facf0dbaa7 in VariableDefine /dev/shm/picoc/variable.c:303
    #6 0x55facf0dc6aa in VariableDefineButIgnoreIdentical /dev/shm/picoc/variable.c:383
    #7 0x55facf0c4540 in ParseDeclaration /dev/shm/picoc/parse.c:366
    #8 0x55facf0c6f6e in ParseStatement /dev/shm/picoc/parse.c:738
    #9 0x55facf0c8380 in PicocParse /dev/shm/picoc/parse.c:897
    #10 0x55facf0e0d0e in PicocPlatformScanFile platform/platform_unix.c:129
    #11 0x55facf0b7213 in main /dev/shm/picoc/picoc.c:62
    #12 0x7f489be46189 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:392 in __interceptor_strcat
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  0x0c0c7fff80c0: fa fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff80d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
  0x0c0c7fff80e0: 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 fa
  0x0c0c7fff80f0: fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
=>0x0c0c7fff8110: 00 00[02]fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8120: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8130: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8140: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8150: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c0c7fff8160: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 
  Heap left redzone:       fa
  Freed heap region:       fd
  Stack left redzone:      f1
  Stack mid redzone:       f2
  Stack right redzone:     f3
  Stack after return:      f5
  Stack use after scope:   f8
  Global redzone:          f9
  Global init order:       f6
  Poisoned by user:        f7
  Container overflow:      fc
  Array cookie:            ac
  Intra object redzone:    bb
  ASan internal:           fe
  Left alloca redzone:     ca
  Right alloca redzone:    cb
  Shadow gap:              cc
==308939==ABORTING
```

### Vulnerable source code:

```
void StringStrcat(struct ParseState *Parser, struct Value *ReturnValue,
    struct Value **Param, int NumArgs)
{
    ReturnValue->Val->Pointer = strcat(Param[0]->Val->Pointer,
        Param[1]->Val->Pointer);
}
```

# References
* https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
* https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-44318
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