[Bug] read_cstring length can be set so that it reads into an unmapped region

[Grazfather]

GEF+GDB version

2024.01
❯ arm-none-eabi-gdb
GNU gdb (GDB) 13.2

Operating System

OSX

Describe the issue you encountered

When a gef.memory.maps section ends and there is a register set to a value near the end, read_cstring will try to read past the end of the page, into unmapped memory. This causes an error in printing the context.

It seems that we can avoid this with set mem inaccessible-by-default off, but I am not sure we want to.

We might want to instead properly set the length based on our memory maps.

Do you read the docs and look at previously closed issues/PRs for similar cases?

No

Architecture impacted

• X86
• X64
• ARM
• ARM64
• MIPS
• MIPS64
• PPC
• PPC64
• RISCV

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Minimalist test case

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[Grazfather]

Wasn't this fixed? Will close with the proper tag

[hugsy]

Wasn't this fixed? Will close with the proper tag

Not yet, it's under review.
I attached the PR to this issue so StaleBot won't close it.

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