Make Input::new
guard against incorrect AsRef
implementations
#1154
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Currently
Input::new
callshaystack.as_ref()
twice, once to get the actualhaystack
slice and the second time to get its length. It makes the assumption that the second call will return the same slice, but malicious implementations ofAsRef
can return different slices and thus different lengths. This is important because there'sunsafe
code relying on theInput
's span being inbounds with respect to thehaystack
, but if the second call to.as_ref()
returns a bigger slice this won't be true.For example, this snippet causes MIRI to report UB on an unchecked slice access in
find_fwd_imp
(though it will also panic sometime later when run normally, but at that point the UB already happened):The proposed fix is to just call
.as_ref()
once and use the length of the returned slice as the span's end value. A regression test has also been added.