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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:32:12 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request - Incomplete dahdi/zaptel tor2.c patch for
	CVE-2008-5396

Hello Steve,

  Eugene Teo has discovered the tor2 upstream
patch for CVE-2008-5396 was incomplete.

http://bugs.digium.com/file_download.php?file_id=20796&type=bug

We were checking if lc->sync is in range of 0-63
kernel/tor2.c:#define MAX_TOR_CARDS 64, but then
lately in the code we used:

zaptel/kernel/tor2.c:

    216         /* if a sync src, put it in the proper place */
    217         if (lc->sync) {
    218                 p->tor->syncs[lc->sync - 1] = span->spanno;
    219                 p->tor->psyncs[lc->sync - 1] = p->span + 1;
    220         }

The problem is 'syncs/psyncs' is defined as array with only 4 items (from zaptel/kernel/tor2.c)

     79 struct tor2 {
     80         /* This structure exists one per card */
     81         struct pci_dev *pci;            /* Pointer to PCI device */
     82         int num;                        /* Which card we are */
     83         int syncsrc;                    /* active sync source */
     84         int syncs[SPANS_PER_CARD];      /* sync sources */
     85         int psyncs[SPANS_PER_CARD];     /* span-relative sync sources */

where 'SPANS_PER_CARD' is defined as:
tor2.c:#define SPANS_PER_CARD  4

so the array index would overflow.

References:
==========
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13954
http://bugs.digium.com/file_download.php?file_id=20796&type=bug (original tor2 CVE-2008-5396 patch)
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13954#96700
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475446#c4

Patch: Upstream has already released patch for this issue available at:
=====
http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi?view=rev&revision=5590

Credit for discovering this issue goes to Eugene Teo.
=====

Could you please allocate a CVE id for this issue?

Thanks, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team


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