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[Lucid,CVE-2013-6378] libertas: potential oops in debugfs

Message ID 1385732565-27708-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Nov. 29, 2013, 1:42 p.m. UTC
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

CVE-2013-6378

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256080

If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops.  Also we can't be
sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a
terminator.

This code can only be triggered by root.

Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
(cherry picked from commit a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88)
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stefan Bader Dec. 2, 2013, 9:26 a.m. UTC | #1

Andy Whitcroft Dec. 2, 2013, 11:20 a.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:42:45PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> CVE-2013-6378
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256080
> 
> If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops.  Also we can't be
> sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a
> terminator.
> 
> This code can only be triggered by root.
> 
> Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> (cherry picked from commit a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88)
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> index 893a55c..89532a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> @@ -925,7 +925,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
>  	char *p2;
>  	struct debug_data *d = (struct debug_data *)f->private_data;
>  
> -	pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (cnt == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (pdata == NULL)
>  		return 0;
>  
> @@ -934,6 +937,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
>  		kfree(pdata);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +	pdata[cnt] = '\0';
>  
>  	p0 = pdata;
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {

Looks to do what is claimed.  Therefore:

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>

-apw
Andy Whitcroft Dec. 2, 2013, 11:53 a.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:42:45PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> CVE-2013-6378
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256080
> 
> If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops.  Also we can't be
> sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a
> terminator.
> 
> This code can only be triggered by root.
> 
> Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> (cherry picked from commit a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88)
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> index 893a55c..89532a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> @@ -925,7 +925,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
>  	char *p2;
>  	struct debug_data *d = (struct debug_data *)f->private_data;
>  
> -	pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (cnt == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (pdata == NULL)
>  		return 0;
>  
> @@ -934,6 +937,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
>  		kfree(pdata);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +	pdata[cnt] = '\0';
>  
>  	p0 = pdata;
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>

-apw
Andy Whitcroft Dec. 2, 2013, noon UTC | #4
Applied to Lucid.

-apw
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
index 893a55c..89532a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
@@ -925,7 +925,10 @@  static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
 	char *p2;
 	struct debug_data *d = (struct debug_data *)f->private_data;
 
-	pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (cnt == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (pdata == NULL)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -934,6 +937,7 @@  static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
 		kfree(pdata);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	pdata[cnt] = '\0';
 
 	p0 = pdata;
 	for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {