From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:26:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:26:05 -0400 Received: from relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.60.163]:41674 "EHLO relay1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:26:04 -0400 Subject: Bug in 2.4.19-pre8 drivers/input/joydev.c From: "Robert T. Johnson" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Sailesh Krishnamurthy , vojtech@suse.cz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 15 May 2002 11:26:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1021487163.12915.37.camel@dooby.cs.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sailesh Krishmurthy and I have found what we believe is an exploitable bug in drivers/input/joydev.c:joydev_ioctl(). It looks like the JSIOCSAXMAP and JSIOCSBTNMAP cases accidentally reverse the arguments to copy_from_user(). A user program could call these ioctls with a maliciously chosen arg to crash the system or gain root access. A patch is attached to this message (though my mailer will probably mangle it -- sorry). We apologize if we have misunderstood the behavior of this function. We found this bug using the static analysis tool cqual, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfoster/cqual/, developed at UC Berkeley by Jeff Foster, John Kodumal, and many others. Please CC us in any replies. Thanks for all your great work on the kernel. Best, Rob Johnson (rtjohnso@cs.berkeley.edu) Sailesh Krishnamurthy (sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu) --- joydev.c Wed May 15 10:25:26 2002 +++ joydev_fixed.c Wed May 15 10:37:36 2002 @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ return copy_to_user((struct js_corr *) arg, joydev->corr, sizeof(struct js_corr) * joydev->nabs) ? -EFAULT : 0; case JSIOCSAXMAP: - if (copy_from_user((__u8 *) arg, joydev->abspam, sizeof(__u8) * ABS_MAX)) + if (copy_from_user(joydev->abspam, (__u8 *) arg, sizeof(__u8) * ABS_MAX)) return -EFAULT; for (i = 0; i < ABS_MAX; i++) { if (joydev->abspam[i] > ABS_MAX) return -EINVAL; @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ return copy_to_user((__u8 *) arg, joydev->abspam, sizeof(__u8) * ABS_MAX) ? -EFAULT : 0; case JSIOCSBTNMAP: - if (copy_from_user((__u16 *) arg, joydev->absmap, sizeof(__u16) * (KEY_MAX - BTN_MISC))) + if (copy_from_user(joydev->absmap, (__u16 *) arg, sizeof(__u16) * (KEY_MAX - BTN_MISC))) return -EFAULT; for (i = 0; i < KEY_MAX - BTN_MISC; i++); { if (joydev->keypam[i] > KEY_MAX || joydev->keypam[i] < BTN_MISC) return -EINVAL;