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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	kvalo@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	security@kernel.org, ivansprundel@ioactive.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] airo: Fix possible info leak in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:03:34 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200123.110334.575852757631951738.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200122040728.8437-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:07:27 +1100

> The driver for Cisco Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards (airo.c),
> implements AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE in airo_ioctl().
> 
> The ioctl handler copies an aironet_ioctl struct from userspace, which
> includes a command and a length. Some of the commands are handled in
> readrids(), which kmalloc()'s a buffer of RIDSIZE (2048) bytes.
> 
> That buffer is then passed to PC4500_readrid(), which has two cases.
> The else case does some setup and then reads up to RIDSIZE bytes from
> the hardware into the kmalloc()'ed buffer.
> 
> Here len == RIDSIZE, pBuf is the kmalloc()'ed buffer:
> 
> 	// read the rid length field
> 	bap_read(ai, pBuf, 2, BAP1);
> 	// length for remaining part of rid
> 	len = min(len, (int)le16_to_cpu(*(__le16*)pBuf)) - 2;
> 	...
> 	// read remainder of the rid
> 	rc = bap_read(ai, ((__le16*)pBuf)+1, len, BAP1);
> 
> PC4500_readrid() then returns to readrids() which does:
> 
> 	len = comp->len;
> 	if (copy_to_user(comp->data, iobuf, min(len, (int)RIDSIZE))) {
> 
> Where comp->len is the user controlled length field.
> 
> So if the "rid length field" returned by the hardware is < 2048, and
> the user requests 2048 bytes in comp->len, we will leak the previous
> contents of the kmalloc()'ed buffer to userspace.
> 
> Fix it by kzalloc()'ing the buffer.
> 
> Found by Ilja by code inspection, not tested as I don't have the
> required hardware.
> 
> Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22  4:07 [PATCH 1/2] airo: Fix possible info leak in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE Michael Ellerman
2020-01-22  4:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] airo: Add missing CAP_NET_ADMIN check " Michael Ellerman
2020-01-23 10:03   ` David Miller
2020-01-23 10:03 ` David Miller [this message]

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