These days I'm learning how to fix this vulnerability CVE-2021-41771 at issue #48990 and CL355990.

I noticed that the variables hdr.Iundefsym and hdr.Nundefsym are read directly from the macho executable.

Therefore, based on the existing test files, I constructed a new test file, where hdr.Iundefsym=9, hdr.Nundefsym=0xFF_FF_FF_FF, the overflow after addition is 8, but uint32(len(f.Symtab.Syms))==11.

The judgment condition hdr.Iundefsym+hdr.Nundefsym > uint32(len(f.Symtab.Syms)) in the CL355990 can be bypassed due to integer addition overflow.

Therefore, panic will still occur when calling ImportedSymbols() method.

This seems to be the same level of security problem as CVE-2021-41771.

The new test file was provided in this zip file:
testdata.zip

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.17.3 windows/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

$ go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\ZJ\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\ZJ\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GOMODCACHE=E:\Code\Go\pkg\mod
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=E:\Code\Go
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://goproxy.cn
set GOROOT=E:\Code\Go\go\go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=E:\Code\Go\go\go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GOVCS=
set GOVERSION=go1.16.4
set GCCGO=gccgo
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=0
set GOMOD=E:\Code\Go\go\go\src\go.mod
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\ZJ\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build488652189=/tmp/go-bui
ld -gno-record-gcc-switches

What did you do?

Use the newly constructed test file and run the test in the debug/macho Directory:

func TestOpenBadDysymCmd2(t *testing.T) {
	f, err := openObscured("testdata/gcc-amd64-darwin-exec-with-bad-dysym-2.base64")
	if err == nil {
		f.ImportedSymbols()
		return
	}
	if _, ok := err.(*FormatError); !ok {
		t.Fatalf("opening invalid dynamic symbol table command file got %v, want FormatError", err)
	}
}

What did you expect to see?

Test PASS

What did you see instead?

panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [9:8] [recovered]
        panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [9:8]

goroutine 6 [running]:
testing.tRunner.func1.2({0x52c5a0, 0xc0000142b8})
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/testing/testing.go:1209 +0x24e
testing.tRunner.func1()
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/testing/testing.go:1212 +0x218
panic({0x52c5a0, 0xc0000142b8})
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/runtime/panic.go:1038 +0x215
debug/macho.(*File).ImportedSymbols(0x543ab6)
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/debug/macho/file.go:685 +0x1cb
debug/macho.TestOpenBadDysymCmd2(0xc00002fba0)
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/debug/macho/file_test.go:440 +0x8c
testing.tRunner(0xc00002fba0, 0x5454e0)
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/testing/testing.go:1259 +0x102
created by testing.(*T).Run
        E:/Code/Go/go/go/src/testing/testing.go:1306 +0x35a