Rich Felker
6ed791e768
commit 7e816a6487 (version 1.1.11
release cycle) moved the code that performs wchar_t to multibyte
conversion across code that used the resulting length in bytes,
thereby breaking the unget buffer space check in ungetwc and
clobbering up to three bytes below the start of the buffer.
for allocated FILEs (all read-enabled FILEs except stdin), the
underflow clobbers at most the FILE-specific locale pointer. no stores
are performed through this pointer, but subsequent loads may result in
a crash or mismatching encoding rule (UTF-8 multibyte vs byte-based).
for stdin, the buffer lies in .bss and the underflow may clobber
another object. in practice, for libc.so the adjacent object seems to
be stderr's buffer, which is completely unused, but this could vary
with linking options, or when static linking.
applications which do not attempt to use more than one character of
ungetwc pushback, or which do not use ungetwc, are not affected.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/