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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Ken Ashcraft <ken@coverity.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mc@cs.stanford.edu,
	linux-aacraid-devel@dell.com
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:09:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419120908.I22989@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]
> /home/kash/linux/linux-2.6.5/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c:419:aac_send_raw_srb: ERROR:TAINT: 413:419:Passing unbounded user value "fibsize" as arg 2 to function "copy_from_user", which uses it unsafely in model [SOURCE_MODEL=(lib,copy_from_user,user,taintscalar)] [SINK_MODEL=(lib,copy_from_user,user,trustingsink)]  [MINOR] [CAPABILTY] [PATH=] 
> 	}
> 	fib_init(srbfib);
> 
> 	srbcmd = (struct aac_srb*) fib_data(srbfib);
> 
> Start --->
> 	if(copy_from_user((void*)&fibsize,
> (void*)&user_srb->count,sizeof(u32))){
> 		printk(KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not copy data size from user\n"); 
> 		rcode = -EFAULT;
> 		goto cleanup;
> 	}
> 
> Error --->
> 	if(copy_from_user(srbcmd, user_srb,fibsize)){
> 		printk(KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not copy srb from user\n"); 
> 		rcode = -EFAULT;
> 		goto cleanup;
> ---------------------------------------------------------

Yup, it's protected by capable(), but...  Simple check eliminate possible
overflow.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

===== drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c 1.4 vs edited =====
--- 1.4/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c	Wed Nov 19 10:38:25 2003
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c	Mon Apr 19 12:02:12 2004
@@ -416,6 +416,11 @@
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
 
+	if (fibsize > FIB_DATA_SIZE_IN_BYTES) {
+		rcode = -EINVAL;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
 	if(copy_from_user(srbcmd, user_srb,fibsize)){
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not copy srb from user\n"); 
 		rcode = -EFAULT;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 19:09 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
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 [this message]
2004-04-19 20:38 ` Chris Wright

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