[PATCH 3.8 83/91] uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Nov 8 02:15:38 UTC 2013


3.8.13.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

commit 201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b upstream.

We don't cap the size of buffer from the user so we could write past the
end of the array here.  Only root can write to this file.

Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico at ngolde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs at goesec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
index 829df49..41ebbfe 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ static ssize_t exitcode_proc_write(struct file *file,
 		const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	char *end, buf[sizeof("nnnnn\0")];
+	size_t size;
 	int tmp;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count))
+	size = min(count, sizeof(buf));
+	if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, size))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	tmp = simple_strtol(buf, &end, 0);
-- 
1.8.1.2





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