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x86 BEXTR semantic bug

Host environment

  • Operating system: Windows 10 20H2
  • OS/kernel version: WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)
  • Architecture: x86
  • QEMU flavor: qemu-x86_64
  • QEMU version: 7.1.90 (v7.2.0-rc0)
  • QEMU command line: qemu-x86_64 -cpu max a.out

Emulated/Virtualized environment

  • Operating system: None
  • OS/kernel version: None
  • Architecture: x86

Description of problem

The result of instruction BEXTR is different with from the CPU. The value of destination register is different. I think QEMU does not consider the operand size limit.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Compile this code
void main() {
    asm("mov rax, 0x17b3693f77fb6e9");
    asm("mov rbx, 0x8f635a775ad3b9b4");
    asm("mov rcx, 0xb717b75da9983018");
    asm("bextr eax, ebx, ecx");
}
  1. Execute and compare the result with the CPU.
    • CPU
      • RAX = 0x5a
    • QEMU
      • RAX = 0x635a775a

Additional information

This bug is discovered by research conducted by KAIST SoftSec.

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