py/objstringio: Prevent offset wraparound for io.BytesIO objects.

Too big positive, or too big negative offset values could lead to overflow
and address space wraparound and thus access to unrelated areas of memory
(a security issue).

Author: tomlogic

py/objstringio.c

@@ -125,8 +125,19 @@ STATIC mp_uint_t stringio_ioctl(mp_obj_t o_in, mp_uint_t request, uintptr_t arg,
                     ref = o->vstr->len;
                     break;
             }
-            o->pos = ref + s->offset;
-            s->offset = o->pos;
+            mp_uint_t new_pos = ref + s->offset;
+            if (s->offset < 0) {
+                if (new_pos > ref) {
+                    // Negative offset from SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END went past 0.
+                    // CPython sets position to 0, POSIX returns an EINVAL error
+                    new_pos = 0;
+                }
+            } else if (new_pos < ref) {
+                // positive offset went beyond the limit of mp_uint_t
+                *errcode = MP_EINVAL;  // replace with MP_EOVERFLOW when defined
+                return MP_STREAM_ERROR;
+            }
+            s->offset = o->pos = new_pos;
             return 0;
         }
         case MP_STREAM_FLUSH: