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From: "Robert T. Johnson" <rtjohnso@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: luca_ing@libero.it
Cc: jburks@wavicle.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4.23: user/kernel pointer bugs (vicam.c, w9968cf.c)
Date: 07 Jan 2004 13:47:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073512053.20237.89.camel@dooby.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)

I think there are exploitable user/kernel pointer bugs in vicam.c and
w9968cf.c.  The bugs are very simple, so I think the patches speak for
themselves.  Thanks for looking at this, and my apologies if I've made
any mistakes.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Rob

P.S. Both of these bugs were found using the source code verification
tool, CQual, developed by Jeff Foster, myself, and others, and available
from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/cqual/.


--- drivers/usb/vicam.c.orig	Wed Jan  7 13:26:01 2004
+++ drivers/usb/vicam.c	Mon Jan  5 17:23:11 2004
@@ -601,12 +601,19 @@
 	case VIDIOCSWIN:
 		{
 
-			struct video_window *vw = (struct video_window *) arg;
-			DBG("VIDIOCSWIN %d x %d\n", vw->width, vw->height);
+			struct video_window vw;
 
-			if ( vw->width != 320 || vw->height != 240 )
+			if (copy_from_user(&vw, arg, sizeof(vw)))
+			{
 				retval = -EFAULT;
+				break;
+			}
+
+			DBG("VIDIOCSWIN %d x %d\n", vw->width, vw->height);
 			
+			if ( vw.width != 320 || vw.height != 240 )
+				retval = -EFAULT;
+
 			break;
 		}
 


--- drivers/usb/w9968cf.c.orig	Wed Jan  7 13:32:28 2004
+++ drivers/usb/w9968cf.c	Wed Jan  7 13:44:44 2004
@@ -3552,10 +3552,13 @@
 
 	case VIDIOCSYNC: /* wait until the capture of a frame is finished */
 	{
-		unsigned int f_num = *((unsigned int *) arg);
+		unsigned int f_num;
 		struct w9968cf_frame_t* fr;
 		int err = 0;
 
+		if (copy_from_user(&f_num, arg, sizeof(f_num)))
+			return -EFAULT;
+
 		if (f_num >= cam->nbuffers) {
 			DBG(4, "Invalid frame number (%d). "
 			       "VIDIOCMCAPTURE failed.", f_num)
@@ -3620,7 +3623,8 @@
 	{
 		struct video_buffer* buffer = (struct video_buffer*)arg;
 
-		memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(struct video_buffer));
+		if (clear_user(buffer, sizeof(struct video_buffer)))
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		DBG(5, "VIDIOCGFBUF successfully called.")
 		return 0;


             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 21:47 Robert T. Johnson [this message]
2004-01-08  2:10 ` Luca Risolia

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