Ted, the attached patch adds an extra validity test in check_ext_attr(). If an attribute's e_value_size is zero the current code does not allocate a region for it and as a result the e_value_offs value is not verified. However, if e_value_offs is very large then the later call to ext2fs_ext_attr_hash_entry() can dereference bad memory and crash e2fsck.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jim Garlick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =========================== e_value_offs.patch ============================ Index: e2fsprogs-1.39/e2fsck/pass1.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs-1.39.orig/e2fsck/pass1.c 2007-02-10 15:43:36.000000000 +0530 +++ e2fsprogs-1.39/e2fsck/pass1.c 2007-02-10 15:45:36.000000000 +0530 @@ -1346,6 +1347,11 @@ if (fix_problem(ctx, PR_1_EA_BAD_VALUE, pctx)) goto clear_extattr; } + if (entry->e_value_offs + entry->e_value_size > fs->blocksize) { + if (fix_problem(ctx, PR_1_EA_BAD_VALUE, pctx)) + goto clear_extattr; + break; + } if (entry->e_value_size && region_allocate(region, entry->e_value_offs, EXT2_EXT_ATTR_SIZE(entry->e_value_size))) { =========================== e_value_offs.patch ============================ Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html