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[IPV4] : Buffer overflow

Message ID 4A702A02.30509@gmail.com
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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roel kluin July 29, 2009, 10:52 a.m. UTC
If arp_format_neigh_entry() can be called with n->dev->addr_len == 0, then a
write to hbuffer[-1] occurs.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/

It's not clear whether this can happen or not.

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Comments

Jarek Poplawski July 29, 2009, 10:02 p.m. UTC | #1
Roel Kluin wrote, On 07/29/2009 12:52 PM:

> If arp_format_neigh_entry() can be called with n->dev->addr_len == 0, then a
> write to hbuffer[-1] occurs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
> Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/
> 
> It's not clear whether this can happen or not.
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
> index c29d75d..252336f 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
> @@ -1304,7 +1304,8 @@ static void arp_format_neigh_entry(struct seq_file *seq,
>  		hbuffer[k++] = hex_asc_lo(n->ha[j]);
>  		hbuffer[k++] = ':';
>  	}
> -	hbuffer[--k] = 0;
> +	if (k != 0)
> +		hbuffer[--k] = 0;


I guess for k == 0 we need hbuffer[0] = 0 too.

Jarek P.

>  #if defined(CONFIG_AX25) || defined(CONFIG_AX25_MODULE)
>  	}
>  #endif
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index c29d75d..252336f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -1304,7 +1304,8 @@  static void arp_format_neigh_entry(struct seq_file *seq,
 		hbuffer[k++] = hex_asc_lo(n->ha[j]);
 		hbuffer[k++] = ':';
 	}
-	hbuffer[--k] = 0;
+	if (k != 0)
+		hbuffer[--k] = 0;
 #if defined(CONFIG_AX25) || defined(CONFIG_AX25_MODULE)
 	}
 #endif