[hardy CVE 1/1] fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Wed Jul 13 14:29:44 UTC 2011
From: Timo Warns <warns at pre-sense.de>
Validate number of blocks in map and remove redundant variable.
Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns at pre-sense.de>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(backported from commit fa7ea87a057958a8b7926c1a60a3ca6d696328ed)
CVE-2011-1010
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804225
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
fs/partitions/mac.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/partitions/mac.c b/fs/partitions/mac.c
index d4a0fad..ba45eaf 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/mac.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/mac.c
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ static inline void mac_fix_string(char *stg, int len)
int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
{
- int slot = 1;
Sector sect;
unsigned char *data;
- int blk, blocks_in_map;
+ int slot, blocks_in_map;
unsigned secsize;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
int found_root = 0;
@@ -61,8 +60,12 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
}
printk(" [mac]");
blocks_in_map = be32_to_cpu(part->map_count);
- for (blk = 1; blk <= blocks_in_map; ++blk) {
- int pos = blk * secsize;
+ if (blocks_in_map < 0 || blocks_in_map >= 256) {
+ put_dev_sector(sect);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ for (slot = 1; slot <= blocks_in_map; ++slot) {
+ int pos = slot * secsize;
put_dev_sector(sect);
data = read_dev_sector(bdev, pos/512, §);
if (!data)
@@ -113,13 +116,11 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state, struct block_device *bdev)
}
if (goodness > found_root_goodness) {
- found_root = blk;
+ found_root = slot;
found_root_goodness = goodness;
}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_PMAC */
-
- ++slot;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
if (found_root_goodness)
--
1.7.4.1
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