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A crafted archive could crash the reader with an out-of-bounds read in the directory-skip path (uc2_finish_cdir -> uc2_read_cdir -> uc2_get_tag). decompress_cdir allocates cdir_buf inside its decode loop but, on its error paths (decode failure or a checksum mismatch), returned before setting cdir_range.end -- leaving cdir_buf non-NULL with a stale end. A later uc2_read_cdir/uc2_finish_cdir then saw cdir_buf != NULL, skipped re-reading, and walked a range whose end pointed below its start, so range_len wrapped and range_get handed out wild pointers. Free cdir_buf on every error path so the invariant "cdir_buf != NULL iff cdir_range is valid" holds, and make range_len report an empty range (rather than a huge one) if end ever precedes ptr, as defense in depth for the whole parser. Also add a compression-ratio ceiling to the cdir decode: a tiny crafted stream can expand via long matches, so abort once the output far outgrows the compressed bytes consumed. Found with a new libFuzzer harness (tests/fuzz/, not built by default). Memory-safety is clean over sustained fuzzing after this change; 22/22 ctest on Release and ASan. A residual slow-input timeout via a separate decode path is tracked for follow-up.
Fuzzing the UC2 reader
fuzz_extract.c is a libFuzzer harness that drives the full read path
(uc2_open -> uc2_read_cdir -> uc2_finish_cdir -> uc2_extract)
over arbitrary bytes with an in-memory reader and a discard writer. It
targets the code that parses untrusted .uc2 archives.
It is intentionally not part of the CMake build or CI: libFuzzer needs a Clang toolchain, and a fuzz run is open-ended rather than pass/fail. Build and run it by hand.
Build
Compile the harness together with the library sources and the embedded
super-master, against a configured build tree (for uc2_version.h and
super_data.S):
cmake -B build-asan -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug # any tree works; provides the generated files
clang -fsanitize=fuzzer,address -O1 -g \
-Ilib/include -Ilib/src -Ibuild-asan/lib \
tests/fuzz/fuzz_extract.c $(ls lib/src/*.c) build-asan/lib/super_data.S \
-lm -o fuzz_extract
Run
mkdir -p corpus && cp tests/archives/*.uc2 corpus/
./fuzz_extract -max_len=65536 -timeout=25 corpus/
ASan flags any out-of-bounds access; libFuzzer writes a crash-* (or
timeout-*) artifact for each finding. Re-run a single artifact with
./fuzz_extract <artifact>.
Status
Memory-safety: clean over sustained runs after the 2026-06-13 cdir hardening (git-bug 69e8e52). A residual slow-input (decompression-bomb) timeout is tracked separately; it is a bounded-CPU issue, not a memory-safety one.