From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Ken Ashcraft" <kash@stanford.edu>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <mc@cs.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] Probable Security Errors in 2.4.12-ac3
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:08:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c15a0a$41a0baf0$010411ac@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0110202220470.963-100000@saga5.Stanford.EDU>
From: "Ken Ashcraft" <kash@stanford.edu>
> [BUG] minor, loops on len
> /home/kash/linux/2.4.12/ipc/msg.c:788:sys_msgrcv: ERROR:RANGE:756:788: Using user length "msgsz" as argument to "store_msg"
[type=GLOBAL] [state = need_ub] set by 'user-originated parameter':756 [distance=81]
>
> ss_wakeup(&msq->q_senders,0);
> msg_unlock(msqid);
> out_success:
> msgsz = (msgsz > msg->m_ts) ? msg->m_ts : msgsz;
> if (put_user (msg->m_type, &msgp->mtype) ||
> Error --->
> store_msg(msgp->mtext, msg, msgsz)) {
> msgsz = -EFAULT;
> }
> free_msg(msg);
That's not a bug:
* msgsz is limited to msg->m_ts (2 lines above store_msg)
* msg->m_ts is set by sys_msgsnd to msgsz, and that function rejects messages longer than msg_ctlmax.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-21 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-21 5:28 [CHECKER] Probable Security Errors in 2.4.12-ac3 Ken Ashcraft
2001-10-21 8:08 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-10-21 9:01 ` Ken Ashcraft
2001-10-23 7:32 ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-25 1:59 ` Rusty Russell
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