Calling a virtual function on a field defeats the dispatch analysis. In the following example only the first tall to target() is detected as receiving sensitive data from source(). The second one is missed and the only difference is that in the first case the dispatched pointer is a local variable, and in the second it is a member.
int source()
{
return 2;
}
int target(int source)
{
return source;
}
class Base
{
public:
virtual int f() = 0;
};
class A : public Base
{
int f() { return source(); }
};
struct Container
{
Base *b;
};
int main(int argv, char **argc)
{
Base *b = new A;
target(b->f());
Container c;
c.b = new A;
target(c.b->f());
return 0;
}This is the query I ran
import cpp
import semmle.code.cpp.dataflow.new.TaintTracking
module SourceSinkCallConfig implements DataFlow::ConfigSig {
predicate isSource(DataFlow::Node source) {
source.asExpr().(Call).getTarget().getName() = "source"
}
predicate isSink(DataFlow::Node sink) {
exists(Call call |
call.getTarget().getName() = "target" and
call.getArgument(0) = sink.asExpr()
)
}
}
module SourceSinkCallTaint = TaintTracking::Global<SourceSinkCallConfig>;
from DataFlow::Node source, DataFlow::Node sink, int source_line, int sink_line
where
SourceSinkCallTaint::flow(source, sink) and
source_line = source.getLocation().getStartLine() and
sink_line = sink.getLocation().getStartLine()
select source, source_line, sink, sink_lineThis is the output. I would have expected to also see a flow from line 19 to 34.
| source | source_line | sink | sink_line |
+----------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+
| call to source | 19 | call to f | 30 |
CodeQL version: 2.19.3
Calling a virtual function on a field defeats the dispatch analysis. In the following example only the first tall to
target()is detected as receiving sensitive data fromsource(). The second one is missed and the only difference is that in the first case the dispatched pointer is a local variable, and in the second it is a member.This is the query I ran
This is the output. I would have expected to also see a flow from line 19 to 34.
CodeQL version: 2.19.3