strings.h: Fix issues with escape string functions.

Fixes for issues with the ASTERISK-24934 patch.

* Fixed ast_escape_alloc() and ast_escape_c_alloc() if the s parameter is
an empty string.  If it were an empty string the functions returned NULL
as if there were a memory allocation failure.  This failure caused the AMI
VarSet event to not get posted if the new value was an empty string.

* Fixed dest buffer overwrite potential in ast_escape() and
ast_escape_c().  If the dest buffer size is smaller than the space needed
by the escaped s parameter string then the dest buffer would be written
beyond the end by the nul string terminator.  The num parameter was really
the dest buffer size parameter so I renamed it to size.

* Made nul terminate the dest buffer if the source string parameter s was
an empty string in ast_escape() and ast_escape_c().

* Updated ast_escape() and ast_escape_c() doxygen function description
comments to reflect reality.

* Added some more unit test cases to /main/strings/escape to cover the
empty source string issues.

ASTERISK-25255 #close
Reported by: Richard Mudgett

Change-Id: Id77fc704600ebcce81615c1200296f74de254104

include/asterisk/strings.h

@@ -312,32 +312,33 @@ char *ast_unescape_c(char *s);
 /*!
  * \brief Escape the 'to_escape' characters in the given string.
  *
- * \note The given output buffer has to have enough memory allocated to store the
- *       original string plus any escaped values.
+ * \note The given output buffer will contain a truncated escaped
+ * version of the source string if the given buffer is not large
+ * enough.
  *
  * \param dest the escaped string
  * \param s the source string to escape
- * \param num number of characters to be copied from the source
+ * \param size The size of the destination buffer
  * \param to_escape an array of characters to escape
  *
  * \return Pointer to the destination.
  */
-char* ast_escape(char *dest, const char *s, size_t num, const char *to_escape);
+char *ast_escape(char *dest, const char *s, size_t size, const char *to_escape);
 
 /*!
  * \brief Escape standard 'C' sequences in the given string.
  *
- * \note The given output buffer has to have enough memory allocated to store the
- *       original string plus any escaped values.
+ * \note The given output buffer will contain a truncated escaped
+ * version of the source string if the given buffer is not large
+ * enough.
  *
  * \param dest the escaped string
  * \param s the source string to escape
- * \param num number of characters to be copied from the source
- * \param to_escape an array of characters to escape
+ * \param size The size of the destination buffer
  *
  * \return Pointer to the escaped string.
  */
-char* ast_escape_c(char *dest, const char *s, size_t num);
+char *ast_escape_c(char *dest, const char *s, size_t size);
 
 /*!
  * \brief Escape the 'to_escape' characters in the given string.

main/utils.c

@@ -1634,40 +1634,50 @@ static char escape_sequences_map[] = {
 	'a', 'b', 'f', 'n', 'r', 't', 'v', '\\', '\'', '"', '?', '\0'
 };
 
-char* ast_escape(char *dest, const char *s, size_t num, const char *to_escape)
+char *ast_escape(char *dest, const char *s, size_t size, const char *to_escape)
 {
 	char *p;
+	char *c;
 
-	if (!dest || ast_strlen_zero(s)) {
+	if (!dest || !size) {
+		return dest;
+	}
+	if (ast_strlen_zero(s)) {
+		*dest = '\0';
 		return dest;
 	}
 
 	if (ast_strlen_zero(to_escape)) {
-		ast_copy_string(dest, s, num);
+		ast_copy_string(dest, s, size);
 		return dest;
 	}
 
-	for (p = dest; *s && num--; ++s, ++p) {
+	for (p = dest; *s && --size; ++s, ++p) {
 		/* If in the list of characters to escape then escape it */
 		if (strchr(to_escape, *s)) {
+			if (!--size) {
+				/* Not enough room left for the escape sequence. */
+				break;
+			}
+
 			/*
 			 * See if the character to escape is part of the standard escape
 			 * sequences. If so we'll have to use its mapped counterpart
 			 * otherwise just use the current character.
 			 */
-			char *c = strchr(escape_sequences, *s);
+			c = strchr(escape_sequences, *s);
 			*p++ = '\\';
 			*p = c ? escape_sequences_map[c - escape_sequences] : *s;
 		} else {
 			*p = *s;
 		}
 	}
-
 	*p = '\0';
+
 	return dest;
 }
 
-char* ast_escape_c(char *dest, const char *s, size_t num)
+char *ast_escape_c(char *dest, const char *s, size_t size)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Note - This is an optimized version of ast_escape. When looking only
@@ -1675,32 +1685,42 @@ char* ast_escape_c(char *dest, const char *s, size_t num)
 	 * be left out thus making it slightly more efficient.
 	 */
 	char *p;
+	char *c;
 
-	if (!dest || ast_strlen_zero(s)) {
+	if (!dest || !size) {
+		return dest;
+	}
+	if (ast_strlen_zero(s)) {
+		*dest = '\0';
 		return dest;
 	}
 
-	for (p = dest; *s && num--; ++s, ++p) {
+	for (p = dest; *s && --size; ++s, ++p) {
 		/*
 		 * See if the character to escape is part of the standard escape
 		 * sequences. If so use its mapped counterpart.
 		 */
-		char *c = strchr(escape_sequences, *s);
+		c = strchr(escape_sequences, *s);
 		if (c) {
+			if (!--size) {
+				/* Not enough room left for the escape sequence. */
+				break;
+			}
+
 			*p++ = '\\';
 			*p = escape_sequences_map[c - escape_sequences];
 		} else {
 			*p = *s;
 		}
 	}
-
 	*p = '\0';
+
 	return dest;
 }
 
 static char *escape_alloc(const char *s, size_t *size)
 {
-	if (!s || !(*size = strlen(s))) {
+	if (!s) {
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -1708,14 +1728,15 @@ static char *escape_alloc(const char *s, size_t *size)
 	 * The result string needs to be twice the size of the given
 	 * string just in case every character in it needs to be escaped.
 	 */
-	*size = *size * 2 + 1;
-	return ast_calloc(sizeof(char), *size);
+	*size = strlen(s) * 2 + 1;
+	return ast_malloc(*size);
 }
 
 char *ast_escape_alloc(const char *s, const char *to_escape)
 {
 	size_t size = 0;
 	char *dest = escape_alloc(s, &size);
+
 	return ast_escape(dest, s, size, to_escape);
 }
 
@@ -1723,6 +1744,7 @@ char *ast_escape_c_alloc(const char *s)
 {
 	size_t size = 0;
 	char *dest = escape_alloc(s, &size);
+
 	return ast_escape_c(dest, s, size);
 }
 

tests/test_strings.c

@@ -460,7 +460,32 @@ AST_TEST_DEFINE(escape_test)
 	char buf[128];
 
 #define TEST_ESCAPE(s, to_escape, expected) \
-	!strcmp(ast_escape(buf, s, sizeof(buf) / sizeof(char), to_escape), expected)
+	!strcmp(ast_escape(buf, s, ARRAY_LEN(buf), to_escape), expected)
+
+#define TEST_ESCAPE_C(s, expected) \
+	!strcmp(ast_escape_c(buf, s, ARRAY_LEN(buf)), expected)
+
+#define TEST_ESCAPE_ALLOC(s, to_escape, expected)		\
+	({													\
+		int res = 0;									\
+		char *a_buf = ast_escape_alloc(s, to_escape);	\
+		if (a_buf) {									\
+			res = !strcmp(a_buf, expected);				\
+			ast_free(a_buf);							\
+		}												\
+		res;											\
+	})
+
+#define TEST_ESCAPE_C_ALLOC(s, expected)				\
+	({													\
+		int res = 0;									\
+		char *a_buf = ast_escape_c_alloc(s);			\
+		if (a_buf) {									\
+			res = !strcmp(a_buf, expected);				\
+			ast_free(a_buf);							\
+		}												\
+		res;											\
+	})
 
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case TEST_INIT:
@@ -474,16 +499,27 @@ AST_TEST_DEFINE(escape_test)
 	}
 
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("null escape", NULL, "null escape"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("empty escape", "", "empty escape"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("", "Z", ""));
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("no matching escape", "Z", "no matching escape"));
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("escape Z", "Z", "escape \\Z"));
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("Z", "Z", "\\Z"));
-	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE(";;", ";;", "\\;\\;"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE(";;", ";", "\\;\\;"));
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("escape \n", "\n", "escape \\n"));
 	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE("escape \n again \n", "\n", "escape \\n again \\n"));
 
-	ast_test_validate(test, !strcmp(ast_escape_c(buf, "escape \a\b\f\n\r\t\v\\\'\"\?",
-						     sizeof(buf) / sizeof(char)),
-					"escape \\a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t\\v\\\\\\\'\\\"\\?"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_C("", ""));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_C("escape \a\b\f\n\r\t\v\\\'\"\?",
+		"escape \\a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t\\v\\\\\\\'\\\"\\?"));
+
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_ALLOC("", "Z", ""));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_ALLOC("Z", "Z", "\\Z"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_ALLOC("a", "Z", "a"));
+
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_C_ALLOC("", ""));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_C_ALLOC("\n", "\\n"));
+	ast_test_validate(test, TEST_ESCAPE_C_ALLOC("a", "a"));
+
 	return AST_TEST_PASS;
 }