patch 9.2.0450: [security]: heap buffer overflow in spellfile.c read_compound()
Problem: read_compound() in spellfile.c computes the size of the regex
pattern buffer using signed-int arithmetic on the attacker
controlled SN_COMPOUND sectionlen. With sectionlen=0x40000008
and UTF-8 encoding active the multiplication wraps to 27 while
the per-byte loop writes up to ~1B bytes, overflowing the heap.
Reachable when loading a crafted .spl file (e.g. via 'set spell'
after a modeline sets 'spelllang'). The cp/ap/crp allocations
have the same int + 1 overflow class (Daniel Cervera)
Solution: Use type size_t as buffer size and reject values larger than
COMPOUND_MAX_LEN (100000). Apply the same size_t treatment to
the cp/ap/crp allocations.