refactor: defensive hardening for binary reader bounds checks#16
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Thanks — ignoring that as prompt-injection/noise. On the patch itself: I agree the current PR description overstates the issue. The intended fix is narrower: avoid I’m going to amend this PR to:
The core change is only to avoid addition-before-comparison in the bounds checks; no behavior change is intended except correctly rejecting wraparound-sized ranges. |
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…nd add some missing functions (#16) * Guard some GMS1 builtins from beeing added in GMS2 * Fix registering instance_create on GMS2 instead of instance_create_depth * Forgot to update vm_builtins.h * Add asset_get_index and some sprite functions * Forgot to commit builtinAssetGetIndex
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Tempting, but I’ll leave W. D. Gaster out of the binary reader :) I’ll keep the PR scoped to the bounds-check hardening only, and I’ll update the description to avoid overclaiming severity. |
This commit merges the security fixes from PR Project-Sunshine-Native#16 with the upstream refactored codebase. The upstream version had undergone a major refactoring to use binary_utils.h for endianness handling, but lacked the integer overflow protections. Security fixes applied: 1. readCheck(): Replace vulnerable `bufferPos + bytes > bufferSize` with overflow-safe check using separate comparisons 2. BinaryReader_readBytesAt(): Replace vulnerable `offset + count` arithmetic with overflow-safe bounds checking These fixes prevent heap buffer overflow attacks that could occur when integer overflow causes bounds checks to pass incorrectly. Original security fix: 4a6574d (OrbisAI Security) Upstream refactoring: e698eaa (Project-Sunshine-Native/cinnamon) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Defensive hardening: rewrite bounds checks in
binary_reader.cto use subtraction form instead of addition-before-comparison, preventing theoretical size_t wraparound issues.Changes
src/binary_reader.c- Two bounds checks rewritten:bufferPos + bytes > bufferSize→bufferPos > bufferSize || bytes > bufferSize - bufferPosoffset + count > bufferBase + bufferSize→ Check decomposed into three conditionsRationale
When checking
a + b > limit, ifa + bwraps around (size_t overflow), the comparison can incorrectly succeed. Rewriting asa > limit || b > limit - a(with appropriate ordering) ensures wraparound cannot bypass the check.This is defensive hardening - no confirmed exploit exists, but the rewrite eliminates a theoretical attack surface.
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Automated security fix by OrbisAI Security