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* re: V4L/DVB (8986): cx24116: Adding DVB-S2 demodulator support
@ 2013-02-05 19:00 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2013-02-05 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stoth; +Cc: linux-media

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


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