Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:44:49 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] potential dereference of user pointer errors |
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* Junfeng Yang (yjf@stanford.edu) wrote: > > [BUG] not sure. the dereference occurs at a tainted place. call > copy_from_user (, data, ), then copy_from_user (, *data, ) > > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/sound/core/seq/instr/ainstr_iw.c:92:snd_seq_iwffff_copy_env_from_stream: > ERROR:TAINTED deferencing "data" tainted by [dist=0][copy_from_user:parm1]
seems like a bug, although i think it's the first copy_from_user that would be broken.
Looks like call flow could be something like: Store user buf ptr in event.data.ext.ptr. Call snd_seq_iwffff_put with the event.data.ext.ptr (offset by header bits) Call snd_seq_iwffff_copy_env_from_stream with &event.data.ext.ptr (offset a little further).
Finally, call copy_from_user on &event.data.ext.ptr, which is copying into an stype. This looks like it's the bug. I don't think the 32 bit addr should be copied into the stype, rather the 1st 32bits of the data (IOW copy_from_user(stype, *data,...)). The second copy_from_user (with *data) copies in the whole iwffff_env_record_t struct which begins with an stype, so it really looks as if the first copy is broken. Patch below. Jaroslav?
thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
===== instr/ainstr_iw.c 1.3 vs edited ===== --- 1.3/sound/core/seq/instr/ainstr_iw.c Mon Feb 10 02:39:27 2003 +++ edited/instr/ainstr_iw.c Fri Mar 21 13:01:32 2003 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ while (1) { if (*len < (long)sizeof(__u32)) return -EINVAL; - if (copy_from_user(&stype, data, sizeof(stype))) + if (copy_from_user(&stype, *data, sizeof(stype))) return -EFAULT; if (stype == IWFFFF_STRU_WAVE) return 0; - 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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