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[Saucy,Trusty,CVE-2014-4611,1/1] lz4: ensure length does not wrap

Message ID 1403888205-135740-2-git-send-email-brad.figg@canonical.com
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Brad Figg June 27, 2014, 4:56 p.m. UTC
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

CVE-2014-2611

Given some pathologically compressed data, lz4 could possibly decide to
wrap a few internal variables, causing unknown things to happen.  Catch
this before the wrapping happens and abort the decompression.

Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 206204a1162b995e2185275167b22468c00d6b36)
Signed-off-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
---
 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Comments

Stefan Bader June 30, 2014, 8:47 a.m. UTC | #1
On 27.06.2014 18:56, Brad Figg wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> CVE-2014-2611
> 
> Given some pathologically compressed data, lz4 could possibly decide to
> wrap a few internal variables, causing unknown things to happen.  Catch
> this before the wrapping happens and abort the decompression.
> 
> Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> (cherry picked from commit 206204a1162b995e2185275167b22468c00d6b36)
> Signed-off-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
> ---
>  lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
> index 411be80..6423f01 100644
> --- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
> +++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ static int lz4_uncompress(const char *source, char *dest, int osize)
>  			len = *ip++;
>  			for (; len == 255; length += 255)
>  				len = *ip++;
> +			if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + len)))
> +				goto _output_error;
>  			length += len;
>  		}
>  
> 
Looks to be doing what it claims
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
index 411be80..6423f01 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@  static int lz4_uncompress(const char *source, char *dest, int osize)
 			len = *ip++;
 			for (; len == 255; length += 255)
 				len = *ip++;
+			if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + len)))
+				goto _output_error;
 			length += len;
 		}