From: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: jmaloy@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, pjp@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] fdc: check for illegal dma length calculation
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:33:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220114013319.348012-1-jmaloy@redhat.com> (raw)
The function fdctrl_start_transfer() calculates the dma data length
wrongly when certain boundary conditions are fulfilled. We have
noticed that the if ((fdctrl->fifo[5] - fdctrl->fifo[6]) > 1) we get
a dma length that will be interpreted as negative by the next function
in the chain, fdctrl_transfer_handler(). This leads to a crash.
Rather than trying to fix this obscure calculation, we just check if
the harmful condition is fulfilled, and return without action if that
is the case. Since this is a condition that can only be created by a
malicious user we deem this solution safe.
This fix is intended to address CVE-2021-3507.
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
---
hw/block/fdc.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/block/fdc.c b/hw/block/fdc.c
index 21d18ac2e3..80a1f1750a 100644
--- a/hw/block/fdc.c
+++ b/hw/block/fdc.c
@@ -1532,6 +1532,11 @@ static void fdctrl_start_transfer(FDCtrl *fdctrl, int direction)
if (fdctrl->fifo[0] & 0x80)
tmp += fdctrl->fifo[6];
fdctrl->data_len *= tmp;
+ if (tmp < 0) {
+ FLOPPY_DPRINTF("calculated illegal data_len=%u, tmp=%i\n",
+ fdctrl->data_len, tmp);
+ return;
+ }
}
fdctrl->eot = fdctrl->fifo[6];
if (fdctrl->dor & FD_DOR_DMAEN) {
--
2.31.1
next reply other threads:[~2022-01-14 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-14 1:33 Jon Maloy [this message]
2022-01-26 15:44 ` [PATCH] fdc: check for illegal dma length calculation Jon Maloy
2022-01-26 16:39 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
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