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Fix excessive stack usage when calling vorbis_analysis_wrote with l…
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…ots of samples

`vorbis_analysis_wrote` increments `v->pcm_current` by `vals`, and this
incremented value can be used by `_preextrapolate_helper` right after to
allocate a float array in the stack `v->pcm_current` positions large.
Clearly, since `alloca` does not check that there is enough stack space
available to satisfy the allocation request, this can lead to a stack
overflow and memory corruption, which at best have no effect, more
likely cause segmentation faults, and at worst introduce security risks.

The documentation for `vorbis_analysis_buffer` and
`vorbis_analysis_wrote` does not specify a maximum value for `vals`. It
states that "1024 is a reasonable choice", but callers are free to use
larger or smaller counts as they wish. Therefore, `libvorbis` not
handling this case is undesirable behavior.

To better handle this case without throwing the performance benefits of
`alloca` out the window, let's check whether the allocation would exceed
256 KiB (an estimate for the minimum stack space available is 1 MiB,
which is [the default on Windows
platforms](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/thread-stack-size)),
and if so fall back to a heap allocated array. The heap array that may
be allocated for this purpose is freed when `vorbis_dsp_clear` is
called. `_preextrapolate_helper` takes neglible execution time
compared to the encoding process for usual sample block sizes, though.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro González <[email protected]>
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AlexTMjugador committed Nov 25, 2023
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/vorbis/codec.h
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Expand Up @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ typedef struct vorbis_dsp_state{

float **pcm;
float **pcmret;
float *preextrapolate_work;
int pcm_storage;
int pcm_current;
int pcm_returned;
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions lib/block.c
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Expand Up @@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ void vorbis_dsp_clear(vorbis_dsp_state *v){
if(v->pcm[i])_ogg_free(v->pcm[i]);
_ogg_free(v->pcm);
if(v->pcmret)_ogg_free(v->pcmret);
if(v->preextrapolate_work)_ogg_free(v->preextrapolate_work);
}

if(b){
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int i;
int order=16;
float *lpc=alloca(order*sizeof(*lpc));
float *work=alloca(v->pcm_current*sizeof(*work));
float *work;
int workbuf=v->pcm_current*sizeof(*work);
long j;
v->preextrapolate=1;

if(v->pcm_current-v->centerW>order*2){ /* safety */
if(workbuf<256*1024)
work=alloca(workbuf);
else
/* workbuf is too big to safely allocate on the stack */
v->preextrapolate_work=_ogg_realloc(v->preextrapolate_work,workbuf);
work=v->preextrapolate_work;

if(v->pcm_current-v->centerW>order*2 && work){ /* safety */
for(i=0;i<v->vi->channels;i++){
/* need to run the extrapolation in reverse! */
for(j=0;j<v->pcm_current;j++)
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