On Saturday 01 August 2009 17:04:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> From: Michael Buesch <m...@bu3sch.de>
>
> Avoid a heap buffer overrun triggered by an integer overflow of the
> userspace controlled "count" variable.
>
> If userspace passes in a "count" of (size_t)-1l, the kmalloc size will
> overflow to ((size_t)-1l + 2) = 1, so only one byte will be allocated.
> However, copy_from_user() will attempt to copy 0xFFFFFFFF (or
> 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF on 64bit) bytes to the buffer.
>
> A possible testcase could look like this:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> int fd;
> char c;
>
> if (argc != 2) {
> printf("Usage: %s /proc/acpi/ibm/filename\n", argv[0]);
> return 1;
> }
> fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0) {
> printf("Could not open proc file\n");
> return 1;
> }
> write(fd, &c, (size_t)-1l);
> }
>
> We avoid the integer overrun by putting an arbitrary limit on the count.
> PAGE_SIZE sounds like a sane limit.
>
> (note: this bug exists at least since kernel 2.6.12...)
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m...@bu3sch.de>
> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@hmh.eng.br>
> Cc: sta...@kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index 27d68e7..18f9ee6 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ static int dispatch_procfs_write(struct file *file,
>
> if (!ibm || !ibm->write)
> return -EINVAL;
> + if (count > PAGE_SIZE - 2)
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> kernbuf = kmalloc(count + 2, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!kernbuf)
Note that it turns out this is not a real-life bug after all.
The VFS code checks count for signedness (high bit set) and bails
out if this is the case.
Well, it might probably be a good idea to restrict the count range to
something sane here anyway, so...
--
Greetings, Michael.
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