From 1690e4866895623a276336a661c86f89b9207477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Sofer <miguel.sofer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:17:21 +0000
Subject: avoiding a buffer overrun in [subst]; restoring tcl7.6 behaviour [Bug
 #495207]

---
 ChangeLog          |  7 +++++++
 generic/tclBasic.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 tests/subst.test   | 14 +++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 063edc4..f79b448 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-02-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalEx): avoiding a buffer overrun
+	reported by Joe English, and restoring tcl7.6 behaviour for
+	[subst]: badly terminated nested scripts will raise an error
+	andnot be evaluated. [Bug #495207]
+
 2002-02-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: corrected strtoll prototype mismatch on Tru64.
diff --git a/generic/tclBasic.c b/generic/tclBasic.c
index 814b4a5..5e8a626 100644
--- a/generic/tclBasic.c
+++ b/generic/tclBasic.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
  * of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
  *
- * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclBasic.c,v 1.47 2002/02/15 14:28:48 dkf Exp $
+ * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclBasic.c,v 1.48 2002/02/25 23:17:21 msofer Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tclInt.h"
@@ -3478,8 +3478,15 @@ Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, numBytes, flags)
     Tcl_Obj *staticObjArray[NUM_STATIC_OBJS], **objv;
     Tcl_Token *tokenPtr;
     int i, code, commandLength, bytesLeft, nested;
-    CallFrame *savedVarFramePtr;	/* Saves old copy of iPtr->varFramePtr
-					 * in case TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL was set. */
+    CallFrame *savedVarFramePtr;   /* Saves old copy of iPtr->varFramePtr
+				    * in case TCL_EVAL_GLOBAL was set. */
+    
+    /* For nested scripts, this variable will be set to point to the first 
+     * char after the end of the script - needed only to compare pointers,
+     * nothing will be read nor written there. 
+     */
+
+    char *onePast = NULL;
 
     /*
      * The variables below keep track of how much state has been
@@ -3509,6 +3516,7 @@ Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, numBytes, flags)
     bytesLeft = numBytes;
     if (iPtr->evalFlags & TCL_BRACKET_TERM) {
 	nested = 1;
+	onePast = script + numBytes;
     } else {
 	nested = 0;
     }
@@ -3520,6 +3528,19 @@ Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, numBytes, flags)
 	    goto error;
 	}
 	gotParse = 1; 
+
+	/*
+	 * A nested script can only terminate in ']'. If the script is not 
+	 * nested, onePast is NULL and the second test is not performed.
+	 */
+
+	next = parse.commandStart + parse.commandSize;
+	if ((next == onePast) && (onePast[-1] != ']')) {
+	    Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj("missing close-bracket", -1));
+	    code = TCL_ERROR;
+	    goto error;
+	}
+
 	if (parse.numWords > 0) {
 	    /*
 	     * Generate an array of objects for the words of the command.
@@ -3572,7 +3593,6 @@ Tcl_EvalEx(interp, script, numBytes, flags)
 	 * Advance to the next command in the script.
 	 */
 
-	next = parse.commandStart + parse.commandSize;
 	bytesLeft -= next - p;
 	p = next;
 	Tcl_FreeParse(&parse);
diff --git a/tests/subst.test b/tests/subst.test
index 662db99..f9e3e78 100644
--- a/tests/subst.test
+++ b/tests/subst.test
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 # of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
 #
-# RCS: @(#) $Id: subst.test,v 1.9 2001/07/12 13:15:09 dkf Exp $
+# RCS: @(#) $Id: subst.test,v 1.10 2002/02/25 23:17:21 msofer Exp $
 
 if {[lsearch [namespace children] ::tcltest] == -1} {
     package require tcltest
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ test subst-5.3 {command substitutions} {
 test subst-5.4 {command substitutions} {
     list [catch {subst {$long [set long] [bogus_command]}} msg] $msg
 } {1 {invalid command name "bogus_command"}}
+test subst-5.5 {command substitutions} {
+    set a 0
+    list [catch {subst {[set a 1}} msg] $a $msg 
+} {1 0 {missing close-bracket}}
+test subst-5.6 {command substitutions} {
+    set a 0
+    list [catch {subst {0[set a 1}} msg] $a $msg 
+} {1 0 {missing close-bracket}}
+test subst-5.7 {command substitutions} {
+    set a 0
+    list [catch {subst {0[set a 1; set a 2}} msg] $a $msg 
+} {1 1 {missing close-bracket}}
 
 test subst-6.1 {clear the result after command substitution} {
     catch {unset a}
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