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authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>2011-03-19 20:14:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-03-27 17:59:02 -0700
commitd50e7e3604778bfc2dc40f440e0742dbae399d54 (patch)
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irda: prevent heap corruption on invalid nickname
Invalid nicknames containing only spaces will result in an underflow in a memcpy size calculation, subsequently destroying the heap and panicking. v2 also catches the case where the provided nickname is longer than the buffer size, which can result in controllable heap corruption. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
index 7c567b8aa89a..2bb2beb6a373 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ irnet_ctrl_write(irnet_socket * ap,
while(isspace(start[length - 1]))
length--;
+ DABORT(length < 5 || length > NICKNAME_MAX_LEN + 5,
+ -EINVAL, CTRL_ERROR, "Invalid nickname.\n");
+
/* Copy the name for later reuse */
memcpy(ap->rname, start + 5, length - 5);
ap->rname[length - 5] = '\0';