Detect integer overflow in Array.concat #810
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This pull request is part of an occasional series on bounds checking and integer overflow. (Previous installments: #250, #805.)
Description
The code used to calculate the size of the output array in
Array.concat
doesn't detect integer overflow. Consequently, passing a single (moderately-sized) list with multiple references to a large array can lead to out-of-bounds writes.Demonstration
Here's a program that demonstrates the problem on a 32-bit platform.
And here's the result of compiling and running the program:
Here's what happens with the addition of this patch: