Out of bounds heap bugs in glib, heap buffer overflow in gnome-session
By testing GNOME-related packages with Address Sanitizer I recently discovered several trivial to find bugs.
Two out of bounds bugs in the glib library were uncovered by running the test suite with Address Sanitizer enabled. One heap buffer overflow in the parameter parsing of gnome-session was uncovered by trying to start GNOME. Given that these bugs weren't discovered earlier means that most likely nobody ever used Address Sanitizer to test GNOME components.
I strongly recommend to GNOME and to other software communities to use Address Sanitizer testing in order to improve the quality of their software.
Out of bounds read in g_unichar_iswide_bsearch() / glib
Upstream bug report (again reported here)
Commit / fix
Fixed in 2.48.2.
Out of bounds read in token_stream_prepare() / glib
Upstream bug report
Commit / fix
Fixed in 2.48.0.
Heap buffer overflow in gnome-session
Upstream bug report
Commit / fix
Fixed in 3.20.2.
Two out of bounds bugs in the glib library were uncovered by running the test suite with Address Sanitizer enabled. One heap buffer overflow in the parameter parsing of gnome-session was uncovered by trying to start GNOME. Given that these bugs weren't discovered earlier means that most likely nobody ever used Address Sanitizer to test GNOME components.
I strongly recommend to GNOME and to other software communities to use Address Sanitizer testing in order to improve the quality of their software.
Out of bounds read in g_unichar_iswide_bsearch() / glib
Upstream bug report (again reported here)
Commit / fix
Fixed in 2.48.2.
Out of bounds read in token_stream_prepare() / glib
Upstream bug report
Commit / fix
Fixed in 2.48.0.
Heap buffer overflow in gnome-session
Upstream bug report
Commit / fix
Fixed in 3.20.2.