From eb1b1264b46f02550201e3e5856ff575fa47a0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 05:51:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Security: fix potential multiplication overflow

---
 ChangeLog            | 3 +++
 libqpdf/BitStream.cc | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 449f5f9..c8dbafa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2013-10-05  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
+	* Security fix: perform additional argument sanity checks when
+	reading bit streams.
+
 	* Security fix: in QUtil::toUTF8, change bounds checking to avoid
 	having a pointer point temporarily outside the bounds of an
 	array.  Some compiler optimizations could have made the original
diff --git a/libqpdf/BitStream.cc b/libqpdf/BitStream.cc
index eb511f7..14eae55 100644
--- a/libqpdf/BitStream.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/BitStream.cc
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ BitStream::reset()
 {
     p = start;
     bit_offset = 7;
+    if (static_cast<unsigned int>(nbytes) > static_cast<unsigned int>(-1) / 8)
+    {
+	throw std::runtime_error("array too large for bitstream");
+    }
     bits_available = 8 * nbytes;
 }
 
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