Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: mdt_loader: fix off-by-one heap overflow in segment name

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 9/12/26 8:56 AM, Kenneth Kabogo wrote:
> mdt_load_split_segment() builds a segment firmware filename by
> overwriting the last three characters of a kstrdup'd copy of fw_name
> with "b%02d" formatted from segment. %02d is a minimum field width,
> not a cap: for segment in [0, 99] this produces exactly "bNN" + NUL,
> which fits the buffer, but for segment >= 100 it writes "b100" or
> wider, one or more bytes past the end of the kstrdup allocation.
> 
> segment is not bounded to [0, 99] anywhere before this point. It is a
> raw index into the firmware's ELF program header table, ultimately
> bounded only by e_phnum, a 16-bit ELF field (max 65535). The existing
> check in mdt_header_valid() only verifies that the program header
> table fits inside the firmware file, not that e_phnum itself is sane,
> so a small firmware file can supply e_phnum > 100 and reach this path
> with segment >= 100 from either qcom_mdt_read_metadata() (the hash
> segment scan) or the main loadable-segment loop in
> qcom_mdt_load_no_init(), whenever the image uses the split-firmware
> convention.
> 
> segment was never valid past 99 under this driver's own "bNN" naming
> scheme, so reject it outright instead of widening the buffer.
> 
> Found by code inspection while auditing the Qualcomm PIL/PAS
> firmware-authentication flow. No reproducer beyond code inspection is
> available; I don't have affected hardware to trigger it on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kenneth Kabogo <kennethkabogo2@gmail.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>

Konrad