cache-tree: detect mismatching number of index entries

In t4058 we have some tests that exercise git-read-tree(1) when used
with a tree that contains duplicate entries. While the expectation is
that we fail, we ideally should fail gracefully without a segfault.

But that is not the case: we never check that the number of entries in
the cache-tree is less than or equal to the number of entries in the
index. This can lead to an out-of-bounds read as we unconditionally
access `istate->cache[idx]`, where `idx` is controlled by the number of
cache-tree entries and the current position therein. The result is a
segfault.

Fix this segfault by adding a sanity check for the number of index
entries before dereferencing them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: pks-t

cache-tree.c

@@ -934,6 +934,11 @@ static int verify_one(struct repository *r,
 		pos = 0;
 	}
 
+	if (it->entry_count + pos > istate->cache_nr) {
+		ret = error(_("corrupted cache-tree has entries not present in index"));
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	i = 0;
 	while (i < it->entry_count) {
 		struct cache_entry *ce = istate->cache[pos + i];

t/t4058-diff-duplicates.sh

@@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ test_expect_success 'create a few commits' '
 	rm commit_id up final
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'git read-tree does not segfault' '
-	test_when_finished rm .git/index.lock &&
-	test_might_fail git read-tree --reset base
+test_expect_success 'git read-tree does not segfault' '
+	test_must_fail git read-tree --reset base 2>err &&
+	test_grep "error: corrupted cache-tree has entries not present in index" err
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'reset --hard does not segfault' '
-	test_when_finished rm .git/index.lock &&
+test_expect_success 'reset --hard does not segfault' '
 	git checkout base &&
-	test_might_fail git reset --hard
+	test_must_fail git reset --hard 2>err &&
+	test_grep "error: corrupted cache-tree has entries not present in index" err
 '
 
 test_expect_failure 'git diff HEAD does not segfault' '