All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: stoth@linuxtv.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: V4L/DVB (8986): cx24116: Adding DVB-S2 demodulator support
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 22:00:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130205190032.GA17573@elgon.mountain> (raw)

Hello Steven Toth,

The patch 0d46748c3f87: "V4L/DVB (8986): cx24116: Adding DVB-S2 
demodulator support" from Sep 4, 2008, leads to the following warning:
"drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c:983 cx24116_send_diseqc_msg()
	 error: buffer overflow 'd->msg' 6 <= 23"

drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c
   977          /* Validate length */
   978          if (d->msg_len > (CX24116_ARGLEN - CX24116_DISEQC_MSGOFS))
   979                  return -EINVAL;
   980  
   981          /* DiSEqC message */
   982          for (i = 0; i < d->msg_len; i++)
   983                  state->dsec_cmd.args[CX24116_DISEQC_MSGOFS + i] = d->msg[i];
   984  

The state->dsec_cmd.args[] array has 30 elements.  The d->msg[] array
has only 6 elements.  We check that we don't write past the end of the
bigger array, but we could read past the end of the smaller array.
d->msg_len comes from the user.

I don't know if this can result in an information leak?

It's weird that we're copying bogus data into the state->dsec_cmd.args[]
array.

regards,
dan carpenter


                 reply	other threads:[~2013-02-05 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20130205190032.GA17573@elgon.mountain \
    --to=dan.carpenter@oracle.com \
    --cc=linux-media@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=stoth@linuxtv.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.