Reject malformed UTF-16/UTF-32 units in wide-string input (#5704)

The wide-string input adapter (used for std::u16string, std::u32string,
std::wstring, and iterators over 2- or 4-byte character types) passed
some malformed code units on to the lexer as values that are neither a
byte (0x00..0xFF) nor char_traits<char>::eof(). As a result:

- A lone UTF-16 surrogate inside true/false/null was accepted if its low
  byte matched the expected letter, or ended the input silently if it
  was the last unit.
- A high surrogate followed by a unit that is not its low surrogate
  swallowed that unit; if the swallowed unit was the newline ending a
  // comment, the comment silently extended over the next line.
- Where wint_t is a signed int (macOS, the BSDs), a negative wchar_t
  collided with char_traits<char>::eof() (ending the input early) or was
  truncated to its low byte, depending on its value.

The UTF-32 helper now converts the code unit to std::uint32_t before the
range checks, so a negative unit reaches the same "emit 0xFF" branch
already used for code points above U+10FFFF. The UTF-16 helper now
peeks at the next unit before consuming it, and emits 0xFF instead of
the raw surrogate when no valid pair is found, matching how ill-formed
UTF-8 bytes are rejected elsewhere in the lexer.

Fixes #5645.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
This commit is contained in:
Niels Lohmann
2026-10-04 11:59:03 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent a0b71e2720
commit c5650eaa3c
3 changed files with 393 additions and 523 deletions
@@ -453,8 +453,10 @@ struct wide_string_input_helper<BaseInputAdapter, 4>
}
else
{
// get the current character
const auto wc = input.get_character();
// get the current character; converted to an unsigned type so that
// a negative unit (wint_t is signed on some platforms) is not
// mistaken for an ASCII character or for EOF
const auto wc = static_cast<std::uint32_t>(input.get_character());
if (wc <= 0x10FFFF)
{
@@ -522,9 +524,11 @@ struct wide_string_input_helper<BaseInputAdapter, 2>
bool valid_pair = false;
if (wc <= 0xDBFF && JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!input.empty()))
{
const auto wc2 = static_cast<unsigned int>(input.get_character());
// only consume the next unit if it completes the pair
const auto wc2 = static_cast<unsigned int>(*input.current);
if (0xDC00 <= wc2 && wc2 <= 0xDFFF)
{
input.get_character();
const auto charcode = 0x10000u + (((static_cast<unsigned int>(wc) & 0x3FFu) << 10u) | (wc2 & 0x3FFu));
utf8_bytes_filled = 0;
encode_utf8(charcode, [&utf8_bytes, &utf8_bytes_filled](std::uint32_t byte)
@@ -537,7 +541,8 @@ struct wide_string_input_helper<BaseInputAdapter, 2>
if (!valid_pair)
{
utf8_bytes[0] = static_cast<std::char_traits<char>::int_type>(wc);
// emit a byte that is never valid UTF-8 (see the UTF-32 case)
utf8_bytes[0] = 0xFF;
utf8_bytes_filled = 1;
}
}