From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Ken Ashcraft <ken@coverity.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mc@cs.stanford.edu,
james.bottomley@steeleye.com
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:02:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416130201.A22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082134916.19301.7.camel@dns.coverity.int>; from ken@coverity.com on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:01:57AM -0700
> [BUG] signed int and unchecked
> /home/kash/linux/linux-2.6.5/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c:1313:mptctl_getiocinfo: ERROR:TAINT: 1229:1313:Using user value "port" without first performing bounds checks [SOURCE_MODEL=(lib,copy_from_user,user,taintscalar)] [PATH=]
> else if (data_size == (sizeof(struct mpt_ioctl_iocinfo_rev0)+12))
> cim_rev = 0; /* obsolete */
> else
> return -EFAULT;
>
> Start --->
> if (copy_from_user(&karg, uarg, data_size)) {
>
> ... DELETED 78 lines ...
>
> */
> strncpy (karg.driverVersion, MPT_LINUX_PACKAGE_NAME,
> MPT_IOCTL_VERSION_LENGTH);
> karg.driverVersion[MPT_IOCTL_VERSION_LENGTH-1]='\0';
>
> karg.busChangeEvent = 0;
> Error --->
> karg.hostId = ioc->pfacts[port].PortSCSIID;
> karg.rsvd[0] = karg.rsvd[1] = 0;
Agreed, port should be validated. Looks like it can only be 0 or 1 if
it's only referencing pfacts[2]? Patch below.
thanks,
-chris
--
Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
===== drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c 1.20 vs edited =====
--- 1.20/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c Sat Mar 27 07:38:07 2004
+++ edited/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c Fri Apr 16 12:53:20 2004
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@
int numDevices = 0;
unsigned int max_id;
int ii;
- int port;
+ unsigned int port;
int cim_rev;
u8 revision;
@@ -1240,9 +1240,7 @@
return -ENODEV;
}
- /* Verify the data transfer size is correct.
- * Ignore the port setting.
- */
+ /* Verify the data transfer size is correct. */
if (karg.hdr.maxDataSize != data_size) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s@%d::mptctl_getiocinfo - "
"Structure size mismatch. Command not completed.\n",
@@ -1258,6 +1256,8 @@
else
karg.adapterType = MPT_IOCTL_INTERFACE_SCSI;
+ if (karg.hdr.port > 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
port = karg.hdr.port;
karg.port = port;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-16 17:01 Ken Ashcraft
2004-04-16 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 22:12 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 16:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 18:32 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 18:54 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-21 1:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-21 1:38 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 19:19 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 19:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17 6:15 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-16 20:02 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-16 20:23 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17 0:16 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-17 1:00 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 16:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-19 19:09 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-19 20:38 ` Chris Wright
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