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Re: An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:55:06 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 09:19:48PM +0800, 郑晗 wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> I'm a security researcher and is now trying to test my new fuzzer. I've just 
> found an illegal memory access in the latest commit of ncurse, tic. Here are 
> the informations:
> 
> (1) environment
> Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
> gcc 9.3.0
> ncurse latest commit 74b10d4a30eec8feb66a4b94a72da65be0048447, tag 
> v6_3_20220409
> 
> 
> (2) step to reproduce: 
> export CFLAGS="-fsanitze=address -g"
> export CXXFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -g"
> ./configure && make -j$(nproc)
> ./prog/tic -o /dev/null $POC

I can reproduce the problem, but the command is incorrect.
With that command, tic will exit (because /dev/null is not a directory)
before getting into the area which produces these messages.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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