Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:29:02 +0900 | From | Horms <> | Subject | [PATCH, 2.4] wan sdla: fix probable security hole |
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> From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:26:30 +0000 (-0400) > Subject: [PATCH] wan sdla: fix probable security hole > X-Git-Tag: v2.6.6-rc2 > X-Git-Url: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=98cd917c1ac348d5cd94beabecc3011dcaa0a0f2 > > [PATCH] wan sdla: fix probable security hole > > > [BUG] minor > > /home/kash/linux/linux-2.6.5/drivers/net/wan/sdla.c:1206:sdla_xfer: > > ERROR:TAINT: 1201:1206:Passing unbounded user value "(mem).len" as arg 0 > > to function "kmalloc", which uses it unsafely in model > > [SOURCE_MODEL=(lib,copy_from_user,user,taintscalar)] > > [SINK_MODEL=(lib,kmalloc,user,trustingsink)] [MINOR] [PATH=] [Also > > used at, line 1219 in argument 0 to function "kmalloc"] > > static int sdla_xfer(struct net_device *dev, struct sdla_mem *info, int > > read) > > { > > struct sdla_mem mem; > > char *temp; > > > > Start ---> > > if(copy_from_user(&mem, info, sizeof(mem))) > > return -EFAULT; > > > > if (read) > > { > > Error ---> > > temp = kmalloc(mem.len, GFP_KERNEL); > > if (!temp) > > return(-ENOMEM); > > sdla_read(dev, mem.addr, temp, mem.len); > > Hrm, I believe you could use this to read 128k of kernel memory. > sdla_read() takes len as a short, whereas mem.len is an int. So, > if mem.len == 0x20000, the allocation could still succeed. When cast > to short, len will be 0x0, causing the read loop to copy nothing into > the buffer. At least it's protected by a capable() check. I don't > know what proper upper bound is for this hardware, or how much it's > used/cared about. Simple memset() is trivial fix.
This seems to be applicable to 2.4
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/sdla.c b/drivers/net/wan/sdla.c index 75fa993..fe74a21 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/sdla.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/sdla.c @@ -1201,6 +1201,7 @@ static int sdla_xfer(struct net_device * temp = kmalloc(mem.len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!temp) return(-ENOMEM); + memset(temp, 0, mem.len); sdla_read(dev, mem.addr, temp, mem.len); if(copy_to_user(mem.data, temp, mem.len)) { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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