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author | Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> | 2010-09-27 12:30:28 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-09-27 19:29:06 -0400 |
commit | 252a52aa4fa22a668f019e55b3aac3ff71ec1c29 (patch) | |
tree | 93e0def0cef2ba85c203f2c20b86cda4b6190843 | |
parent | 95929eff2cb01e9858779283795f4e3943ee020d (diff) |
Fix pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor range check
The PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a
pktcdvd_device from the global pkt_devs array. The index into this
array is provided directly by the user and is a signed integer, so the
comparison to ensure that it falls within the bounds of this array will
fail when provided with a negative index.
This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory or cause a crash due to
an invalid pointer dereference. This can be exploited by users with
permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control (on many distributions, this is
readable by group "cdrom").
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
[ Rather than add a cast, just make the function take the right type -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c index b1cbeb59bb76..37a2bb595076 100644 --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c +++ b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | |||
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ static void pkt_release_dev(struct pktcdvd_device *pd, int flush) | |||
2369 | pkt_shrink_pktlist(pd); | 2369 | pkt_shrink_pktlist(pd); |
2370 | } | 2370 | } |
2371 | 2371 | ||
2372 | static struct pktcdvd_device *pkt_find_dev_from_minor(int dev_minor) | 2372 | static struct pktcdvd_device *pkt_find_dev_from_minor(unsigned int dev_minor) |
2373 | { | 2373 | { |
2374 | if (dev_minor >= MAX_WRITERS) | 2374 | if (dev_minor >= MAX_WRITERS) |
2375 | return NULL; | 2375 | return NULL; |