[PATCH 3.11 038/128] lz4: fix another possible overrun

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jul 24 09:44:47 UTC 2014


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

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

commit 4148c1f67abf823099b2d7db6851e4aea407f5ee upstream.

There is one other possible overrun in the lz4 code as implemented by
Linux at this point in time (which differs from the upstream lz4
codebase, but will get synced at in a future kernel release.)  As
pointed out by Don, we also need to check the overflow in the data
itself.

While we are at it, replace the odd error return value with just a
"simple" -1 value as the return value is never used for anything other
than a basic "did this work or not" check.

Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb at securitymouse.com>
Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
index 6423f018f907..8ee9333e87ae 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ static int lz4_uncompress(const char *source, char *dest, int osize)
 		if (length == ML_MASK) {
 			for (; *ip == 255; length += 255)
 				ip++;
+			if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + *ip)))
+				goto _output_error;
 			length += *ip++;
 		}
 
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@ static int lz4_uncompress(const char *source, char *dest, int osize)
 
 	/* write overflow error detected */
 _output_error:
-	return (int) (-(((char *)ip) - source));
+	return -1;
 }
 
 static int lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *source, char *dest,
-- 
1.9.1





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