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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: pizza@shaftnet.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 & CW1200 WLAN chipsets
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 06:09:55 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604130955.GA13788@debian> (raw)

Hello Solomon Peachy,

The patch a910e4a94f69: "cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 &
CW1200 WLAN chipsets" from May 24, 2013, has poor input validation
so the user could write to arbitrary memory.

Also I think this API looks like things which should be done with
normal ioctls.  This driver only lets you load the firmware using a
very ugly custom debugfs interface?

drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/debug.c
   454  
   455          if (!count)
   456                  goto done;
   457  
   458          if (copy_from_user(etf->buf + etf->written, user_buf + written,
   459                             count)) {

"count" isn't capped so we could overwrite etf->written on the first
write and then write to arbitrary memery on the second write.

   460                  pr_err("copy_from_user (payload %zu) failed\n", count);
   461                  return -EFAULT;
   462          }

regards,
dan carpenter


             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-04 13:09 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-06-04 13:43 ` cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 & CW1200 WLAN chipsets Solomon Peachy
2013-06-05  8:06   ` Kalle Valo
2013-06-05 11:12     ` Solomon Peachy
2013-06-05 11:36       ` Kalle Valo
2013-06-05 19:11         ` Solomon Peachy

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