From FEDORA_PATCHES Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Seitz Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 08:47:16 -0800 Subject: gdb-find_and_open_source-empty-string-ub-3of4.patch ;; Backport "Fix undefined behaviour dereferencing empty string" ;; (Magne Hov, RHEL-17631) When a source file's dirname is solely made up of directory separators we end up trying to dereference the last character of an empty string with std::string::back, which results in undefined behaviour. A typical use case where this can happen is when the root directory "/" is used as a compilation directory. With libstdc++.so.6.0.28 we get no out-of-bounds checks and the byte preceding the storage of the empty string is returned. The character value of this byte depends on heap implementation and usage, but when this byte happens to hold the value of the directory separator character we go on to call std::string::pop_back on the empty string which results in an out_of_range exception which terminates GDB. Fix this by using path_join. prepare_path_for_appending ensures that the filename component is relative. The testsuite has been run before and after the change and no regressions were found. diff --git a/gdb/source.c b/gdb/source.c --- a/gdb/source.c +++ b/gdb/source.c @@ -1111,15 +1111,7 @@ find_and_open_source (const char *filename, helpful if part of the compilation directory was removed, e.g. using gcc's -fdebug-prefix-map, and we have added the missing prefix to source_path. */ - std::string cdir_filename (dirname); - - /* Remove any trailing directory separators. */ - while (IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (cdir_filename.back ())) - cdir_filename.pop_back (); - - /* Add our own directory separator. */ - cdir_filename.append (SLASH_STRING); - cdir_filename.append (filename_start); + std::string cdir_filename = path_join (dirname, filename_start); result = openp (path, OPF_SEARCH_IN_PATH | OPF_RETURN_REALPATH, cdir_filename.c_str (), OPEN_MODE, fullname);