[PATCH] ed: don't use memcpy with overlapping memory regions

[Sören Tempel]

Ping.

soeren at soeren-tempel.net wrote:
> From: Sören Tempel <soeren+git at soeren-tempel.net>
> 
> The memcpy invocations in the subCommand function, modified by this
> commit, previously used memcpy with overlapping memory regions. This is
> undefined behavior. On Alpine Linux, it causes BusyBox ed to crash since
> we compile BusyBox with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and our fortify-headers
> implementation catches this source of undefined behavior [0]. The issue
> can only be triggered if the replacement string is the same size or
> shorter than the old string.
> 
> Looking at the code, it seems to me that a memmove(3) is what was
> actually intended here, this commit modifies the code accordingly.
> 
> [0]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13504
> ---
>  editors/ed.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/editors/ed.c b/editors/ed.c
> index 209ce9942..4a84f7433 100644
> --- a/editors/ed.c
> +++ b/editors/ed.c
> @@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static void subCommand(const char *cmd, int num1, int num2)
>  		if (deltaLen <= 0) {
>  			memcpy(&lp->data[offset], newStr, newLen);
>  			if (deltaLen) {
> -				memcpy(&lp->data[offset + newLen],
> +				memmove(&lp->data[offset + newLen],
>  					&lp->data[offset + oldLen],
>  					lp->len - offset - oldLen);
>  
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