mprintf: Fix stack overflows

Stack overflows can occur with precisions for integers and floats.

Proof of concepts:
- curl_mprintf("%d, %.*1$d", 500, 1);
- curl_mprintf("%d, %+0500.*1$f", 500, 1);

Ideally, compile with -fsanitize=address which makes this undefined
behavior a bit more defined for debug purposes.

The format strings are valid. The overflows occur due to invalid
arguments. If these arguments are variables with contents controlled
by an attacker, the function's stack can be corrupted.

Also see CVE-2016-9586 which partially fixed the float aspect.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5722

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib557.c b/tests/libtest/lib557.c
index 2e51b99c1..a1be9b7df 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/lib557.c
+++ b/tests/libtest/lib557.c
@@ -1537,6 +1537,17 @@ static int test_weird_arguments(void)
 
   errors += string_check(buf, "");
 
+  /* Do not skip sanity checks with parameters! */
+  buf[0] = 0;
+  rc = curl_msnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d, %.*1$d", 500, 1);
+
+  if(rc != 256) {
+    printf("curl_mprintf() returned %d and not 256!\n", rc);
+    errors++;
+  }
+
+  errors += strlen_check(buf, 255);
+
   if(errors)
     printf("Some curl_mprintf() weird arguments tests failed!\n");