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authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>2011-03-19 20:14:30 +0000
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2011-04-28 08:20:51 -0700
commit0b03d0985f309d5f65498220a01d7c2b4bb77661 (patch)
treee9ce59c717b48c39dd0b518f9ff8ad0f74b704fb /net
parent44b722fa1d1fdaecdf6fce55c26f90a98ea4b1d2 (diff)
irda: prevent heap corruption on invalid nickname
commit d50e7e3604778bfc2dc40f440e0742dbae399d54 upstream. Invalid nicknames containing only spaces will result in an underflow in a memcpy size calculation, subsequently destroying the heap and panicking. v2 also catches the case where the provided nickname is longer than the buffer size, which can result in controllable heap corruption. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
index 6a1a202710c5..ab5bee29dc33 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ irnet_ctrl_write(irnet_socket * ap,
while(isspace(start[length - 1]))
length--;
+ DABORT(length < 5 || length > NICKNAME_MAX_LEN + 5,
+ -EINVAL, CTRL_ERROR, "Invalid nickname.\n");
+
/* Copy the name for later reuse */
memcpy(ap->rname, start + 5, length - 5);
ap->rname[length - 5] = '\0';