As defined in the C standard:
In all cases the argument is an int, the value of which shall
be representable as an unsigned char or shall equal the value
of the macro EOF. If the argument has any other value, the
behavior is undefined.
This is because they're designed to work with the int values returned
by getc or fgetc; they need extra work to handle a char value.
If EOF is -1 (as it almost always is), with 8-bit bytes, the allowed
inputs to the ctype(3) functions are:
{-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 255}.
However, on platforms where char is signed, such as x86 with the
usual ABI, code like
char *arg = ...;
... isspace(*arg) ...
may pass in values in the range:
{-128, -127, -126, ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, ..., 127}.
This has two problems:
1. Inputs in the set {-128, -127, -126, ..., -2} are forbidden.
2. The non-EOF byte 0xff is conflated with the value EOF = -1, so
even though the input is not forbidden, it may give the wrong
answer.
Casting char to int first before passing the result to ctype(3)
doesn't help: inputs like -128 are unchanged by this cast. It is
necessary to cast char inputs to unsigned char first; you can then
cast to int if you like but there's no need because the functions
will always convert the argument to int by definition. So the above
fragment needs to be:
char *arg = ...;
... isspace((unsigned char)*arg) ...
This patch inserts unsigned char casts where necessary, and changes
int casts to unsigned char casts where the input is char.
I left alone int casts where the input is unsigned char already --
they're not immediately harmful, although they would have the effect
of suppressing some compiler warnings if the input is ever changed to
be char instead of unsigned char, so it might be better to remove
those casts too.
I also left alone calls where the input is int to begin with because
it came from getc; casting to unsigned char here would be wrong, of
course.
This should be largely transparent, but it drastically
improves performance and reduces memory foot-print when
configuring large numbers domains of the form
local=/adserver.com/
or
local=/adserver.com/#
Lookup times now grow as log-to-base-2 of the number of domains,
rather than greater than linearly, as before.
The change makes multiple addresses associated with a domain work
address=/example.com/1.2.3.4
address=/example.com/5.6.7.8
It also handles multiple upstream servers for a domain better; using
the same try/retry alogrithms as non domain-specific servers. This
also applies to DNSSEC-generated queries.
Finally, some of the oldest and gnarliest code in dnsmasq has had
a significant clean-up. It's far from perfect, but it _is_ better.
CVE-2021-3448 applies.
It's possible to specify the source address or interface to be
used when contacting upstream nameservers: server=8.8.8.8@1.2.3.4
or server=8.8.8.8@1.2.3.4#66 or server=8.8.8.8@eth0, and all of
these have, until now, used a single socket, bound to a fixed
port. This was originally done to allow an error (non-existent
interface, or non-local address) to be detected at start-up. This
means that any upstream servers specified in such a way don't use
random source ports, and are more susceptible to cache-poisoning
attacks.
We now use random ports where possible, even when the
source is specified, so server=8.8.8.8@1.2.3.4 or
server=8.8.8.8@eth0 will use random source
ports. server=8.8.8.8@1.2.3.4#66 or any use of --query-port will
use the explicitly configured port, and should only be done with
understanding of the security implications.
Note that this change changes non-existing interface, or non-local
source address errors from fatal to run-time. The error will be
logged and communiction with the server not possible.
The nasty code with static variable in retry_send() which
avoids looping forever needs to be called on success of the syscall,
to reset the static variable.
