oss-security - CVE request: kernel: cifs: singedness issue in CIFSFindNext()

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:36:00 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: cifs: singedness issue in CIFSFindNext()

The name_len variable in CIFSFindNext is a signed int that gets set to
the resume_name_len in the cifs_search_info. The resume_name_len however
is unsigned and for some infolevels is populated directly from a 32 bit
value sent by the server.

If the server sends a very large value for this, then that value could
look negative when converted to a signed int. That would make that value
pass the PATH_MAX check later in CIFSFindNext. The name_len would then
be used as a length value for a memcpy. It would then be treated as
unsigned again, and the memcpy scribbles over a ton of memory.

Fix this by making the name_len an unsigned value in CIFSFindNext.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-cifs/msg03950.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732869

Thanks, Eugene

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