staging: ncpfs: memory corruption in ncp_read_kernel()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:07:45 +0000 (14:07 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:24:43 +0000 (18:24 +0200)
commit 4c41aa24baa4ed338241d05494f2c595c885af8f upstream.

If the server is malicious then *bytes_read could be larger than the
size of the "target" buffer.  It would lead to memory corruption when we
do the memcpy().

Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c

index 804adfebba2f7e4631caa5c1205a5481e915cfb9..3e047eb4cc7c755f6863a3cf739c1a663d52adda 100644 (file)
@@ -981,6 +981,10 @@ ncp_read_kernel(struct ncp_server *server, const char *file_id,
                goto out;
        }
        *bytes_read = ncp_reply_be16(server, 0);
+       if (*bytes_read > to_read) {
+               result = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
        source = ncp_reply_data(server, 2 + (offset & 1));
 
        memcpy(target, source, *bytes_read);