>From d1d577490c15a0c6862473d7576352a9f18ef811 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Adler Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:20:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Avoid pre-decrement of pointer in big-endian CRC calculation. There was a small optimization for PowerPCs to pre-increment a pointer when accessing a word, instead of post-incrementing. This required prefacing the loop with a decrement of the pointer, possibly pointing before the object passed. This is not compliant with the C standard, for which decrementing a pointer before its allocated memory is undefined. When tested on a modern PowerPC with a modern compiler, the optimization no longer has any effect. Due to all that, and per the recommendation of a security audit of the zlib code by Trail of Bits and TrustInSoft, in support of the Mozilla Foundation, this "optimization" was removed, in order to avoid the possibility of undefined behavior. --- crc32.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/zlib/crc32.c b/zlib/crc32.c index 979a7190..05733f4e 100644 --- a/zlib/crc32.c +++ b/zlib/crc32.c @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ local unsigned long crc32_little(crc, buf, len) } /* ========================================================================= */ -#define DOBIG4 c ^= *++buf4; \ +#define DOBIG4 c ^= *buf4++; \ c = crc_table[4][c & 0xff] ^ crc_table[5][(c >> 8) & 0xff] ^ \ crc_table[6][(c >> 16) & 0xff] ^ crc_table[7][c >> 24] #define DOBIG32 DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4; DOBIG4 @@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ local unsigned long crc32_big(crc, buf, len) } buf4 = (const z_crc_t FAR *)(const void FAR *)buf; - buf4--; while (len >= 32) { DOBIG32; len -= 32; @@ -309,7 +308,6 @@ local unsigned long crc32_big(crc, buf, len) DOBIG4; len -= 4; } - buf4++; buf = (const unsigned char FAR *)buf4; if (len) do {