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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: "Max S." <max@schneidersoft.net>
Cc: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd.eu>,
	"linux-can@vger.kernel.org" <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: can: esd_usb2: check index of array before accessing
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:51:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D41030.10708@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372852299.15632.13.camel@blackbox>

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On 07/03/2013 01:51 PM, Max S. wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:00 +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> did anybody encounter an issue with invalid net codes comming from the
>> device?
> Technically one could write a usb device that sends a bad
> netcode/crafted message.
> 
> through 
> esd_usb2_read_bulk_callback()
> 	esd_usb2_rx_can_msg(dev->nets[msg->msg.rx.net], msg);
> 	...
> 	esd_usb2_rx_event()
> 		...
> 		u8 state = msg->msg.rx.data[0];
> 		...
> 		priv->old_state = state;
> 
> one could write any u8 memory value to <255 past dev->nets.
> 
> ... I think.

Yes or crash the kernel by accessing bad memory, better safe then sorry.

Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-03 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-03  8:33 [PATCH] net: can: esd_usb2: check index of array before accessing Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-07-03 10:00 ` Matthias Fuchs
2013-07-03 10:04   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-07-03 11:51   ` Max S.
2013-07-03 11:51     ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
     [not found]     ` <51D41E53.2030900@esd.eu>
2013-07-03 13:04       ` Marc Kleine-Budde

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