[nginx] QUIC: avoid accessing freed frame.

Roman Arutyunyan arut at nginx.com
Mon Aug 14 14:01:11 UTC 2023


details:   https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/5d1e7c74aadf
branches:  
changeset: 9141:5d1e7c74aadf
user:      Roman Arutyunyan <arut at nginx.com>
date:      Tue Aug 01 11:20:04 2023 +0400
description:
QUIC: avoid accessing freed frame.

Previously the field pnum of a potentially freed frame was accessed.  Now the
value is copied to a local variable.  The old behavior did not cause any
problems since the frame memory is not freed, but is moved to a free queue
instead.

diffstat:

 src/event/quic/ngx_event_quic_ack.c |  4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (28 lines):

diff -r e9a003d40485 -r 5d1e7c74aadf src/event/quic/ngx_event_quic_ack.c
--- a/src/event/quic/ngx_event_quic_ack.c	Thu Jul 27 13:35:42 2023 +0400
+++ b/src/event/quic/ngx_event_quic_ack.c	Tue Aug 01 11:20:04 2023 +0400
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ ngx_quic_persistent_congestion(ngx_conne
 void
 ngx_quic_resend_frames(ngx_connection_t *c, ngx_quic_send_ctx_t *ctx)
 {
+    uint64_t                pnum;
     ngx_queue_t            *q;
     ngx_quic_frame_t       *f, *start;
     ngx_quic_stream_t      *qs;
@@ -556,6 +557,7 @@ ngx_quic_resend_frames(ngx_connection_t 
     qc = ngx_quic_get_connection(c);
     q = ngx_queue_head(&ctx->sent);
     start = ngx_queue_data(q, ngx_quic_frame_t, queue);
+    pnum = start->pnum;
 
     ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, c->log, 0,
                    "quic resend packet pnum:%uL", start->pnum);
@@ -565,7 +567,7 @@ ngx_quic_resend_frames(ngx_connection_t 
     do {
         f = ngx_queue_data(q, ngx_quic_frame_t, queue);
 
-        if (f->pnum != start->pnum) {
+        if (f->pnum != pnum) {
             break;
         }
 


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