Re: [PATCH] input: Fix heap buffer overflow in preadbuffer for non-SMALL builds

Daniel Snider <[email protected]> wrote:
> From 0242b3e94da8de5043d5b2a8fba2f380347f6eaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Snider <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:37:21 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] input: Fix heap buffer overflow in preadbuffer for non-SMALL
> builds
> 
> Commit a065467 ("input: Move newline loop into preadbuffer") removed a
> guard that prevented looping back to preadfd when no more characters
> remain in the buffer.  In non-SMALL builds (with libedit), this causes
> preadbuffer to call preadfd again without resynchronising the buffer
> pointer, overwriting heap memory past the allocated IBUFSIZ input buffer.
> 
> Any single-line shell input longer than IBUFSIZ (~8 KB) triggers a heap
> buffer overflow that corrupts glibc malloc metadata, resulting in
> SIGABRT or SIGSEGV.
> 
> Reproducer (requires --with-libedit build):
> 
>  { printf 'export X='; head -c 16000 /dev/zero | tr '\0' A; echo; } > /tmp/t.sh
>  dash -c '. /tmp/t.sh'
> 
> Restore the guard so that "goto again" only fires when no characters
> have been consumed from the current buffer (q == parsefile->nextc),
> matching the pre-a065467 behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Snider <[email protected]>
> ---
> src/input.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks.  This will be fixed with

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/CAO_NRt5mv7E-qkSA2hE+4HsQMzpczrF9ZAWL-jKbW0Li1F3U0A@mail.gmail.com/
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