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From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jorge.lopez2@hp.com, hansg@kernel.org,
	ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com, linux@weissschuh.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, meatuni001@gmail.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read on empty password write
Date: Mon,  3 Aug 2026 19:30:26 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803143037.93105-4-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803143037.93105-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>

validate_password_input() computes length = strlen(buf) and then
checks buf[length - 1] to strip a trailing newline, without checking
that length is nonzero first. Writing an empty string (a bare '\n')
to current_password or new_password gives length == 0, and
buf[length - 1] reads buf[-1], one byte before the heap allocation
holding the copied input.

KASAN confirms this directly:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in store_password_instance.constprop.0+0x223/0x2a0 [hp_bioscfg]
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88811bd8da9f by task sh/13740
  ...
  store_password_instance.constprop.0+0x223/0x2a0 [hp_bioscfg]
  current_password_store+0x14/0x20 [hp_bioscfg]
  ...
  The buggy address is located 23 bytes to the right of
  allocated 8-byte region [ffff88811bd8da80, ffff88811bd8da88)

Reproduced identically via new_password_store. Execution continues
past the bad read (the garbage byte only affects whether "length" is
decremented by one), so the write completes and returns success; this
is a pure information read past the buffer, not a crash, but it is
still an out-of-bounds access KASAN correctly flags.

Fix by only checking buf[length - 1] when length is nonzero.

Fixes: 8646a3b5ee3a ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: passwdobj-attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
index 4d79eb8056a5..86fa03a5ee9a 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int validate_password_input(int instance_id, const char *buf)
 	struct password_data *password_data = &bioscfg_drv.password_data[instance_id];
 
 	length = strlen(buf);
-	if (buf[length - 1] == '\n')
+	if (length > 0 && buf[length - 1] == '\n')
 		length--;
 
 	if (length > MAX_PASSWD_SIZE)
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-03 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03 14:30 [PATCH 00/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix multiple memory safety bugs and parsing errors Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 01/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one write in hp_get_string_from_buffer Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 02/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read in sk_store and kek_store Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 04/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix 16-byte heap overflow for empty auth token Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 05/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one heap OOB write in audit_log_entries_show Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 06/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: add missing bounds check in PSWD_ENCODINGS loop Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 07/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix new_password_store overwriting current_password Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 08/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix ORD_LIST_ELEMENTS never being parsed Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 09/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in enum-attributes Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 10/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in int-attributes Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 11/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in string-attributes Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 12/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in order-list-attributes Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-03 14:30 ` [PATCH 13/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in passwdobj-attributes Muhammad Bilal

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