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SubjectRe: [PATCH] firewire: nosy: don't read packets bigger than requested
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:16 PM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> In general, accessing userspace memory beyond the length of the supplied
> buffer in VFS read/write handlers can lead to both kernel memory corruption
> (via kernel_read()/kernel_write(), which can e.g. be triggered via
> sys_splice()) and privilege escalation inside userspace.
>
> Fixes: 286468210d83 ("firewire: new driver: nosy - IEEE 1394 traffic sniffer")
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> ---
> No CC stable because this device shouldn't be available to unprivileged
> code by default and should be pretty rare.
>
> drivers/firewire/nosy.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firewire/nosy.c b/drivers/firewire/nosy.c
> index a128dd1126ae..732075fc312e 100644
> --- a/drivers/firewire/nosy.c
> +++ b/drivers/firewire/nosy.c
> @@ -161,11 +161,12 @@ packet_buffer_get(struct client *client, char __user *data, size_t user_length)
> if (atomic_read(&buffer->size) == 0)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> - /* FIXME: Check length <= user_length. */
> -
> end = buffer->data + buffer->capacity;
> length = buffer->head->length;
>
> + if (length > user_length)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> if (&buffer->head->data[length] < end) {
> if (copy_to_user(data, buffer->head->data, length))
> return -EFAULT;

Ping. I sent this about two months ago, I haven't received a reply,
and from what I can tell, it hasn't landed in any tree so far...

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