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author | Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> | 2009-12-14 20:57:37 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 11:53:10 -0500 |
commit | ec81aecb29668ad71f699f4e7b96ec46691895b6 (patch) | |
tree | 0a66a8fb41689955e3400cba7fc7419f4183dec5 /kernel/up.c | |
parent | 4b731d50ff3df6b9141a6c12b088e8eb0109e83c (diff) |
hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow
A specially-crafted Hierarchical File System (HFS) filesystem could cause
a buffer overflow to occur in a process's kernel stack during a memcpy()
call within the hfs_bnode_read() function (at fs/hfs/bnode.c:24). The
attacker can provide the source buffer and length, and the destination
buffer is a local variable of a fixed length. This local variable (passed
as "&entry" from fs/hfs/dir.c:112 and allocated on line 60) is stored in
the stack frame of hfs_bnode_read()'s caller, which is hfs_readdir().
Because the hfs_readdir() function executes upon any attempt to read a
directory on the filesystem, it gets called whenever a user attempts to
inspect any filesystem contents.
[amwang@redhat.com: modify this patch and fix coding style problems]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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