If the server is malicious then *bytes_read could be larger than the size of the "target" buffer. It would lead to memory corruption when we do the memcpy().
Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <Silvio Cesare <silvio.ces...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c b/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c index 804adfebba2f..3e047eb4cc7c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c @@ -981,6 +981,10 @@ ncp_read_kernel(struct ncp_server *server, const char *file_id, goto out; } *bytes_read = ncp_reply_be16(server, 0); + if (*bytes_read > to_read) { + result = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } source = ncp_reply_data(server, 2 + (offset & 1)); memcpy(target, source, *bytes_read);