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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-10-03 00:27:20 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-11-04 04:35:13 -0800
commit3365bb990a76d4d7dd4b36202aa7ade95bde7c70 (patch)
tree442172a8a6f77c4c4dacc1f1fb04a2ac8eafbc04 /net/compat.c
parente795ffb6551b0c3b52233e585cef96879942638c (diff)
net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()
[ Upstream commit 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 ] We need to cap ->msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr(). It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to exploit this bug. The call tree is: ___sys_recvmsg() move_addr_to_user() audit_sockaddr() __audit_sockaddr() Reported-by: Jüri Aedla <juri.aedla@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--net/compat.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c
index f0a1ba6c808..89032580bd1 100644
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ int get_compat_msghdr(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct compat_msghdr __user *umsg)
__get_user(kmsg->msg_controllen, &umsg->msg_controllen) ||
__get_user(kmsg->msg_flags, &umsg->msg_flags))
return -EFAULT;
+ if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage))
+ return -EINVAL;
kmsg->msg_name = compat_ptr(tmp1);
kmsg->msg_iov = compat_ptr(tmp2);
kmsg->msg_control = compat_ptr(tmp3);