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| author | Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> | 2013-10-29 22:06:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-11-13 12:01:49 +0900 |
| commit | cc51af932905754ad594f8d1fc02d61073b7236f (patch) | |
| tree | 023afccd4a608a0d7e0564082bfc9a79eb626908 | |
| parent | 8c373c185f096a93a70f7ebba792cb16f2a8530e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-cc51af932905754ad594f8d1fc02d61073b7236f.tar.gz lwn-cc51af932905754ad594f8d1fc02d61073b7236f.zip | |
uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()
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@ngolde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c index 829df49dee99..41ebbfebb333 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); |