[CVE-2016-3955][Utopic, Vivid, Wily, Xenial] USB: usbip: fix potential out-of-bounds write

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Apr 21 14:19:19 UTC 2016


From: Ignat Korchagin <ignat.korchagin at gmail.com>

Fix potential out-of-bounds write to urb->transfer_buffer
usbip handles network communication directly in the kernel. When receiving a
packet from its peer, usbip code parses headers according to protocol. As
part of this parsing urb->actual_length is filled. Since the input for
urb->actual_length comes from the network, it should be treated as untrusted.
Any entity controlling the network may put any value in the input and the
preallocated urb->transfer_buffer may not be large enough to hold the data.
Thus, the malicious entity is able to write arbitrary data to kernel memory.

Signed-off-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat.korchagin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit b348d7dddb6c4fbfc810b7a0626e8ec9e29f7cbb)
CVE-2016-3955
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572666
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c
index facaaf003f19..e40da7759a0e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c
@@ -741,6 +741,17 @@ int usbip_recv_xbuff(struct usbip_device *ud, struct urb *urb)
 	if (!(size > 0))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (size > urb->transfer_buffer_length) {
+		/* should not happen, probably malicious packet */
+		if (ud->side == USBIP_STUB) {
+			usbip_event_add(ud, SDEV_EVENT_ERROR_TCP);
+			return 0;
+		} else {
+			usbip_event_add(ud, VDEV_EVENT_ERROR_TCP);
+			return -EPIPE;
+		}
+	}
+
 	ret = usbip_recv(ud->tcp_socket, urb->transfer_buffer, size);
 	if (ret != size) {
 		dev_err(&urb->dev->dev, "recv xbuf, %d\n", ret);




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