From: "Frédéric Danis" <frederic.danis@collabora.com>
To: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH BlueZ] pbap: Fix not checking Database Identifier length
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 10:37:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260512083750.178053-1-frederic.danis@collabora.com> (raw)
Database Identifier is supposed to be 16 bytes values.
A paired Bluetooth device acting as a PBAP server can overflow the
heap in obexd by up to 239 bytes into adjacent allocations by returning
a DATABASEID_TAG application parameter with an oversized length.
With both length and content fully attacker-controlled, this enables
standard glibc heap exploitation primitives (tcache/fastbin poisoning)
leading to remote code execution in the obexd process.
---
obexd/client/pbap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/obexd/client/pbap.c b/obexd/client/pbap.c
index 0f575e61e..ce5e6cd5d 100644
--- a/obexd/client/pbap.c
+++ b/obexd/client/pbap.c
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ static void read_databaseid(struct pbap_data *pbap, GObexApparam *apparam)
data = value;
}
- if (memcmp(data, pbap->databaseid, len)) {
+ if (len == sizeof(pbap->databaseid) &&
+ memcmp(data, pbap->databaseid, len)) {
memcpy(pbap->databaseid, data, len);
g_dbus_emit_property_changed(conn,
obc_session_get_path(pbap->session),
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-12 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-12 8:37 Frédéric Danis [this message]
2026-05-12 10:07 ` [BlueZ] pbap: Fix not checking Database Identifier length bluez.test.bot
2026-05-12 19:20 ` [PATCH BlueZ] " patchwork-bot+bluetooth
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