[PATCH 2/2] staging: vt6656: integer overflows in private_ioctl()

Xi Wang xi.wang at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 02:53:46 UTC 2011


There are two potential integer overflows in private_ioctl() if
userspace passes in a large sList.uItem / sNodeList.uItem.  The
subsequent call to kmalloc() would allocate a small buffer, leading
to a memory corruption.

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg at vsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c
index 4939002..1463d76 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/ioctl.c
@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@ int private_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct ifreq *rq)
 			result = -EFAULT;
 			break;
 		}
+		if (sList.uItem > (ULONG_MAX - sizeof(SBSSIDList)) / sizeof(SBSSIDItem)) {
+			result = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
 		pList = (PSBSSIDList)kmalloc(sizeof(SBSSIDList) + (sList.uItem * sizeof(SBSSIDItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (pList == NULL) {
 			result = -ENOMEM;
@@ -557,6 +561,10 @@ int private_ioctl(PSDevice pDevice, struct ifreq *rq)
 			result = -EFAULT;
 			break;
 		}
+		if (sNodeList.uItem > (ULONG_MAX - sizeof(SNodeList)) / sizeof(SNodeItem)) {
+			result = -ENOMEM;
+			break;
+		}
 		pNodeList = (PSNodeList)kmalloc(sizeof(SNodeList) + (sNodeList.uItem * sizeof(SNodeItem)), (int)GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (pNodeList == NULL) {
 			result = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.5.4





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