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* [SECURITY] memory corruption in X.25 facilities parsing
@ 2010-11-02 15:02 Dan Rosenberg
  2010-11-03  1:12 ` Andrew Hendry
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Dan Rosenberg @ 2010-11-02 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andrew.hendry; +Cc: netdev, security, stable

I put this together after a quick glance, so if someone knows this code
better than I do (i.e. at all), feel free to comment or drop this patch
if it's unnecessary.

A value of 0 will cause a memcpy() of ULONG_MAX size, destroying the
kernel heap.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>

--- linux-2.6.36-rc6.orig/net/x25/x25_facilities.c	2010-09-28 21:01:22.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc6/net/x25/x25_facilities.c	2010-11-02 10:36:02.827291324 -0400
@@ -134,14 +134,14 @@ int x25_parse_facilities(struct sk_buff 
 		case X25_FAC_CLASS_D:
 			switch (*p) {
 			case X25_FAC_CALLING_AE:
-				if (p[1] > X25_MAX_DTE_FACIL_LEN)
+				if (p[1] > X25_MAX_DTE_FACIL_LEN || p[1] == 0)
 					break;
 				dte_facs->calling_len = p[2];
 				memcpy(dte_facs->calling_ae, &p[3], p[1] - 1);
 				*vc_fac_mask |= X25_MASK_CALLING_AE;
 				break;
 			case X25_FAC_CALLED_AE:
-				if (p[1] > X25_MAX_DTE_FACIL_LEN)
+				if (p[1] > X25_MAX_DTE_FACIL_LEN || p[1] == 0)
 					break;
 				dte_facs->called_len = p[2];
 				memcpy(dte_facs->called_ae, &p[3], p[1] - 1);



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