BUG/MINOR: peers: fix OOB heap write in dictionary cache update
When a peer sends a dictionary entry update with a value (the else
branch at line 2109), the entry id decoded from the wire was never
validated against dc->max_entries before being used as an array index
into dc->rx[].
A malicious peer can send id=N where N > 128 (PEER_STKT_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES)
to:
- dc->rx[id-1].de at line 2123: OOB read followed by atomic decrement
and potential free of an attacker-controlled pointer via
dict_entry_unref()
- dc->rx[id-1].de = de at line 2124: OOB write of a heap pointer at
an attacker-controlled offset (16-byte stride, ~64 GiB range)
The bounds check was added to the key-only branch in commit
f9e51beec
("BUG/MINOR: peers: Do not ignore a protocol error for dictionary
entries.") but was never added to the with-value branch. The bug has
been present since dictionary support was introduced in commit
8d78fa7def5c ("MINOR: peers: Make peers protocol support new
"server_name" data type.").
Reachable from any TCP client that knows the configured peer name
(no cryptographic authentication on the peers protocol). Requires a
stick-table with "store server_key" in the configuration.
Fix by hoisting the bounds check above the branch so it covers both
paths.
Must be backported as far as 2.6.