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From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [Patch] hfs: fix namelength memory corruption
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:35:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908133505.GA3031@alice> (raw)

hi,

this is basically the same as
hfsplus-fix-buffer-overflow-with-a-corrupted-image.patch.
We use the length parameter for a memcopy without checking it and
thereby corruption memory. 

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

--- linux/fs/hfs/catalog.c.orig	2008-09-08 15:20:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/fs/hfs/catalog.c	2008-09-08 15:21:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ int hfs_cat_find_brec(struct super_block
 
 	fd->search_key->cat.ParID = rec.thread.ParID;
 	len = fd->search_key->cat.CName.len = rec.thread.CName.len;
+	if (len > HFS_NAMELEN) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: bad catalog namelength\n");
+		return -EIO;
+	}
 	memcpy(fd->search_key->cat.CName.name, rec.thread.CName.name, len);
 	return hfs_brec_find(fd);
 }

             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-08 13:35 Eric Sesterhenn [this message]
2008-09-09  0:14 ` [Patch] hfs: fix namelength memory corruption Andrew Morton
2008-09-09  2:02 ` David Wagner

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