Description of problem: I maintain an application (dmapd) that makes use of VIPS. I am having trouble with the application. The symptom is a segfault when processing certain image files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vips-7.32.3-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: I wrote a simple program that causes the crash when opening a particular JPEG file: #include <vips/vips.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { VipsImage *im = vips_image_new_mode ("cam_hat.jpg", "rd"); } Actual results: (gdb) run Starting program: /tmp/Cameron/a.out [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. __mempcpy_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memcpy.S:167 167 movb %al, (%rdi) (gdb) ba #0 __mempcpy_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memcpy.S:167 #1 0x00007ffff202b1fe in __GI__IO_file_xsgetn (fp=0x65f520, data=<optimized out>, n=18446744073105506304) at fileops.c:1391 #2 0x00007ffff20208d8 in __GI__IO_fread (buf=<optimized out>, size=size@entry=1, count=18446744073105506304, fp=0x65f520) at iofread.c:42 #3 0x00007ffff584d150 in fread (__stream=<optimized out>, __n=<optimized out>, __size=1, __ptr=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:295 #4 Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 (mat=mat@entry=0x65b780) at mat4.c:314 #5 0x00007ffff584df78 in Mat_Open (matname=0x7fffffffac40 "cam_hat.jpg", mode=mode@entry=0) at mat.c:245 #6 0x00007ffff796411b in vips__mat_ismat (filename=<optimized out>) at matlab.c:303 #7 0x00007ffff7961ebd in vips_foreign_load_new_from_foreign_sub (load_class=0x65a400, filename=0x7fffffffac40 "cam_hat.jpg") at foreign.c:502 #8 0x00007ffff799cf85 in vips_slist_map2 (list=<optimized out>, fn=fn@entry=0x7ffff7961e90 <vips_foreign_load_new_from_foreign_sub>, a=a@entry=0x7fffffffac40, b=b@entry=0x0) at util.c:125 #9 0x00007ffff7961faa in vips_foreign_map (base=base@entry=0x7ffff79c2e36 "VipsForeignLoad", fn=fn@entry=0x7ffff7961e90 <vips_foreign_load_new_from_foreign_sub>, a=a@entry=0x7fffffffac40, b=b@entry=0x0) at foreign.c:446 #10 0x00007ffff7962598 in vips_foreign_find_load (filename=0x7fffffffac40 "cam_hat.jpg") at foreign.c:533 #11 0x00007ffff79625ec in vips_foreign_load_new_from_string (string=0x7fffffffac40 "cam_hat.jpg") at foreign.c:638 #12 0x00007ffff798cf40 in vips_object_new_from_string (object_class=0x656d10, p=p@entry=0x656a20 "cam_hat.jpg") at object.c:2052 #13 0x00007ffff7962f96 in vips_foreign_load_options (filename=filename@entry=0x656a20 "cam_hat.jpg", out=out@entry=0x7fffffffdd88) at foreign.c:1462 #14 0x00007ffff799199f in vips_image_build (object=<optimized out>) at image.c:681 #15 0x00007ffff798b2a9 in vips_object_build (object=0x6570c0) at object.c:179 #16 0x00007ffff7990d22 in vips_image_new_mode (filename=<optimized out>, mode=0x400a70 "rd") at image.c:1484 #17 0x00000000004009ce in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdf08) at vipsTest.c:5 Expected results: The program should not crash. Additional info: I contacted John Cupitt, the author of VIPS, and he pointed out that this is due to a bug in libmatio's Mat_Open() which must be called to asses whether the file is compatible with libmatio. He recommended that I build VIPS with "./configure --without-matio ...". I think we should do this for the Fedora packages because, as a memory corruption error, this could give rise to a security vulnerability.
I'd rather see this fixed in libmatio, rather than disabling libmatio support in VIPS.
I've submitted a patch in the libmatio bugtracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/matio/bugs/16/
There is also movement in VIPS since I first approached John. He changed the priority of the libmatio code so that it follows JPEG. This should be in 7.34.2, once released: https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/7bf40144b93a85a1fbddb60ba47ed3c5dc24d856 Of course, this won't completely remove the possibility of triggering the segfault, but it will reduce the liklihood by allowing other decoders to identify a file's format before making it to libmatio.
Should be fixed in this matio commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/matio/matio/ci/b146b474f25504ac2974e986a47e7d2ce8b7f630/ Reassigning to matio.
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