From 713fd62d886c839bb3991c26d95714be01dd6ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Rosenberg Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:14:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] irda: prevent heap corruption on invalid nickname BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761134 commit d50e7e3604778bfc2dc40f440e0742dbae399d54 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner --- net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c index 7c567b8..2bb2beb 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'; -- 1.7.10.4