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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-10-30 20:12:51 +0300
committerKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>2013-12-06 14:35:27 -0800
commit3246e64db2be915039cb982e711d4edf272e11ef (patch)
tree5b4917a025370f91d8787c937e8ea54bb9629f10
parent3589e50cffea66061d1197fbcf3e7693b1a0efc3 (diff)
libertas: potential oops in debugfs
commit a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88 upstream. If we do a zero size allocation then it will oops. Also we can't be sure the user passes us a NUL terminated string so I've added a terminator. This code can only be triggered by root. Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> [ kamal: 3.8 stable for CVE-2013-6378 ] Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
index 668dd27616a0..cc6a0a586f0b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
@@ -913,7 +913,10 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
char *p2;
struct debug_data *d = f->private_data;
- pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (cnt == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ pdata = kmalloc(cnt + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (pdata == NULL)
return 0;
@@ -922,6 +925,7 @@ static ssize_t lbs_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
kfree(pdata);
return 0;
}
+ pdata[cnt] = '\0';
p0 = pdata;
for (i = 0; i < num_of_items; i++) {