[Bug 509531] CVE-2009-2295 ocaml-camlimages: PNG reader multiple integer overflows (oCERT-2009-009)

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--- Comment #8 from Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>  2009-07-03 10:08:41 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Created an attachment (id=350433)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=350433) [details] [details]
> > camlimages-oversized-png-check.patch
> 
> One note from a very quick look... in general, test like:
> 
>   (x) * (y) < (x) || (x) * (y) < (y)
> 
> is not sufficient to catch all possible integer overflows in multiplication. 
> Think of x == y == 0x10001, x * y == 0x100020001, which is 0x20001 in 32bit
> world.  This can still result in small buffer that may be overflown later.
> 
> The test is usually written as:
> 
>   y != 0  &&  x > (TYPE)_MAX / y
> 
> (first part is needed if y can be 0, not needed in cases where y is
> sizeof(sometype)).  

Yup, someone just found a counterexample on #ocaml.

I'll change the patch and rebuild in a moment.

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