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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:35:35 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: cve request: bat_socket_read memory corruption
Please USE CVE-2011-4604 for this issue.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [oss-security] cve request: bat_socket_read memory corruption
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:35:33 +0100
From: Paul <pawlkt@...il.com>
To: kseifried@...hat.com
On 2011-12-10 20:30, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 09:13 AM, Paul wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> can I get a CVE for this:
>> https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-December/005904.html
>> ?
>>
>> If root does read() on a specific socket, it's possible to corrupt
>> (kernel) memory over network, with an ICMP packet, if B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh
>> protocol is used.
>>
> I'm going to need first hand source information, i.e. links to the
> code/commits/project stating it's an issue or something similar.
>
https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-December/005908.html
Modified patch from Sven Eckelmann, one of project's managers.
--
Regards,
Paul
===========================
Don't write more than the requested number of bytes of an batman-adv icmp
packet to the userspace buffer. Otherwise unrelated userspace memory might get
overwritten by the kernel.
Reported-by: Paul Kot <pawlkt at gmail.com <https://lists.open-mesh.org/mm/listinfo/b.a.t.m.a.n>>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org <https://lists.open-mesh.org/mm/listinfo/b.a.t.m.a.n>>
---
Marek pointed out that it is better to merge patch 1 and 2. I think it doesn't
make sense to leave Paul Kot as author because it doesn't look like his patch
at all.
And thanks to Andrew for s/overridden/overwritten/
icmp_socket.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/icmp_socket.c b/icmp_socket.c
index 5bc8649..66923d2 100644
--- a/icmp_socket.c
+++ b/icmp_socket.c
@@ -136,10 +136,9 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
spin_unlock_bh(&socket_client->lock);
- error = __copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet,
- socket_packet->icmp_len);
+ packet_len = min(count, socket_packet->icmp_len);
+ error = copy_to_user(buf, &socket_packet->icmp_packet, packet_len);
- packet_len = socket_packet->icmp_len;
kfree(socket_packet);
if (error)
--
1.7.7.3
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