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A hostile but structurally valid 382-byte PE32+ "EFI application" with a
single section whose VirtualSize is ~4 GiB and SizeOfRawData is 0 drives
uki_hash() into ~4.17 M iterations of SHA-256 over 1024 bytes of zeros
— wedging the parser for >10 s. Nine more slow-units share the same
shape. A separate MSAN finding from the new fuzzer (CIFuzz, memory
sanitizer) shows pe_load_headers() reading uninitialised heap memory
when SizeOfOptionalHeader is too small to actually contain
NumberOfRvaAndSizes.
Three tightenings in src/shared/pe-binary.c:
1. In pe_load_sections, reject sections whose PointerToRawData +
SizeOfRawData exceeds the actual file size. Raw section data must
fit inside the file; this is the parser-wide invariant
pe_hash / uki_hash / pe_read_section_data rely on.
2. In uki_hash, cap the (VirtualSize - SizeOfRawData) zero-padding
hash loop at 64 MiB. Real UKIs do not pad sections with tens of
MiB of zero-equivalent data; anything above this cap is a
malformed PE.
3. In pe_load_headers, reject a PE whose SizeOfOptionalHeader is too
small to cover up to NumberOfRvaAndSizes. Without this guard the
subsequent size-mismatch check reads uninitialised optional-header
bytes, caught by MSAN under CIFuzz.
Add the 382 B canonical reproducer (plus two structural siblings) and
the MSAN reproducer to test/fuzz/fuzz-pe-binary/. Also add a libFuzzer
harness in src/fuzz/fuzz-pe-binary.c and unit tests in
src/test/test-pe-binary.c that exercise each fix branch in isolation.
The 64 MiB hash boundary test is gated behind SYSTEMD_SLOW_TESTS so it
doesn't slow down emulated-arch CI.
This is a robustness fix, not a security fix: PE binaries consumed by
bootctl / systemd-stub / pcrlock / kernel-install / systemd-measure are
already trusted and signed at the consumer side, so the worst pre-fix
behaviour is wasted CPU on a UKI install / measure / inspect call.
Closes #42344.
Reported-by: AI-assisted libFuzzer campaign
Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0c5cba6420)
(cherry picked from commit 6b0830b25c)
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