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authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>2011-03-19 16:14:30 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-03-27 20:59:02 -0400
commitd50e7e3604778bfc2dc40f440e0742dbae399d54 (patch)
tree6ff38b491047533a9cbe74f04e231c14c2a6d0f3 /net/irda/irnet
parente433430a0ca9cc1b851a83ac3b305e955b64880a (diff)
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/irda/irnet')
-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,
105 while(isspace(start[length - 1])) 105 while(isspace(start[length - 1]))
106 length--; 106 length--;
107 107
108 DABORT(length < 5 || length > NICKNAME_MAX_LEN + 5,
109 -EINVAL, CTRL_ERROR, "Invalid nickname.\n");
110
108 /* Copy the name for later reuse */ 111 /* Copy the name for later reuse */
109 memcpy(ap->rname, start + 5, length - 5); 112 memcpy(ap->rname, start + 5, length - 5);
110 ap->rname[length - 5] = '\0'; 113 ap->rname[length - 5] = '\0';