Fix use-after-free race in TransliteratorAlias compoundFilter#3913
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Summary
TransliteratorAliasstored a raw non-owning pointer to theTransliteratorEntry'scompoundFilter. When the registry mutex is released betweenregistry->get()andalias->create(), a concurrentTransliterator::unregister()call can delete the entry (and itscompoundFilter) while the alias still holds a dangling pointer, causing a use-after-free.The source comment at
transreg.cpplines 30-36 notes that BoundsChecker has reported dangling pointer errors with these entry objects, corroborating this race condition.Changes
compoundFilterin bothTransliteratorAliasconstructors instead of storing a raw alias pointercompoundFilterin~TransliteratorAlias()const UnicodeSet*(alias) toUnicodeSet*(owned)Test plan
createInstance+unregisteron the same ID no longer triggers UAF