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Stack-based Buffer Overflow in the wfloat() function

Hi,

While fuzzing dpic with American Fuzzy Lop, I found a Stack-based Buffer Overflow in the wfloat() function, in main.c.

Attaching a reproducer, issue can be reproduced by running:

dpic test01

test01

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==28531==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow on address 0x7ffc1bb894d9 at pc 0x0000004471fa bp 0x7ffc1bb893a0 sp 0x7ffc1bb88b50
WRITE of size 91 at 0x7ffc1bb894d9 thread T0
    #0 0x4471f9 in vsprintf (/home/fcambus/dpic/dpic+0x4471f9)
    #1 0x447526 in __interceptor_sprintf (/home/fcambus/dpic/dpic+0x447526)
    #2 0x512a85 in wfloat /home/fcambus/dpic/main.c
    #3 0x528554 in yyparse /home/fcambus/dpic/dpic.y:739:13
    #4 0x521c41 in main /home/fcambus/dpic/main.c:2354:13
    #5 0x7ffa9110ab96 in __libc_start_main /build/glibc-OTsEL5/glibc-2.27/csu/../csu/libc-start.c:310
    #6 0x41a369 in _start (/home/fcambus/dpic/dpic+0x41a369)

Address 0x7ffc1bb894d9 is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 57 in frame
    #0 0x51296f in wfloat /home/fcambus/dpic/main.c:213

  This frame has 1 object(s):
    [32, 57) 'buf' (line 214) <== Memory access at offset 57 overflows this variable
HINT: this may be a false positive if your program uses some custom stack unwind mechanism or swapcontext
      (longjmp and C++ exceptions *are* supported)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow (/home/fcambus/dpic/dpic+0x4471f9) in vsprintf
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  0x100003769240: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x100003769250: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x100003769260: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x100003769270: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x100003769280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
=>0x100003769290: 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00[01]f3 f3 f3 f3
  0x1000037692a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x1000037692b0: 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f2 f2 f2 f8 f2 f2 f2
  0x1000037692c0: f8 f2 f8 f2 f2 f2 f8 f2 f2 f2 f8 f2 f8 f2 f2 f2
  0x1000037692d0: f8 f2 f8 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x1000037692e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 
  Heap left redzone:       fa
  Freed heap region:       fd
  Stack left redzone:      f1
  Stack mid redzone:       f2
  Stack right redzone:     f3
  Stack after return:      f5
  Stack use after scope:   f8
  Global redzone:          f9
  Global init order:       f6
  Poisoned by user:        f7
  Container overflow:      fc
  Array cookie:            ac
  Intra object redzone:    bb
  ASan internal:           fe
  Left alloca redzone:     ca
  Right alloca redzone:    cb
==28531==ABORTING