Ack: [precise 2/2] floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Mon Jun 16 16:29:06 UTC 2014


On 05/06/2014 12:10 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> From: Matthew Daley <mattd at bugfuzz.com>
> 
> Do not leak kernel-only floppy_raw_cmd structure members to userspace.
> This includes the linked-list pointer and the pointer to the allocated
> DMA space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattd at bugfuzz.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> 
> (cherry picked from commit 2145e15e0557a01b9195d1c7199a1b92cb9be81f)
> CVE-2014-1738
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/floppy.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 56490fe..6d0f3e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -3060,7 +3060,10 @@ static int raw_cmd_copyout(int cmd, void __user *param,
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	while (ptr) {
> -		ret = copy_to_user(param, ptr, sizeof(*ptr));
> +		struct floppy_raw_cmd cmd = *ptr;
> +		cmd.next = NULL;
> +		cmd.kernel_data = NULL;
> +		ret = copy_to_user(param, &cmd, sizeof(cmd));
>  		if (ret)
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  		param += sizeof(struct floppy_raw_cmd);
> 


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