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authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>2011-03-19 20:14:30 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-04-14 16:53:25 -0700
commitd7a23a52a0b2bc246bda91ee7ef2660291ee1cf4 (patch)
tree64ed8ad2aee340cebef9a03fbc1dc57d0c92df6e /net
parent396c7c0bf6a876915b4041cac703ce31b0bd6fb2 (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>
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 7dea882dbb75..38997cdcda40 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';