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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 16:52:53 -0700
commit05180971edccd23713af50993f9859e596ad60e7 (patch)
treef42f3ce23c3367c2fe758d58d383fbe674fb1d9f /net
parent0fc3fc08ecdb5496de33fb55955a0dab1a633329 (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 6b3602de359a..581f2529014d 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ 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';