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authorRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>2009-08-06 18:58:13 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-08-09 04:08:42 -0400
commitfdb8a42742ac95606668f73481dfb2f760658fdd (patch)
tree5dd433f3190ba47117a7bc849b71eb38878e6c85 /arch
parent498cdbfbcf98e0d2c90a26e6a02a82f043876e48 (diff)
x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init()
If the vendor name (from c16) can be longer than 100 bytes (or missing a terminating null), then the null is written past the end of vendor[]. Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/ Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/efi.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
index 19ccf6d0dccf..fe26ba3e3451 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
354 */ 354 */
355 c16 = tmp = early_ioremap(efi.systab->fw_vendor, 2); 355 c16 = tmp = early_ioremap(efi.systab->fw_vendor, 2);
356 if (c16) { 356 if (c16) {
357 for (i = 0; i < sizeof(vendor) && *c16; ++i) 357 for (i = 0; i < sizeof(vendor) - 1 && *c16; ++i)
358 vendor[i] = *c16++; 358 vendor[i] = *c16++;
359 vendor[i] = '\0'; 359 vendor[i] = '\0';
360 } else 360 } else