[patch] cifs: check offset in decode_ntlmssp_challenge()

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 03:49:37 MST 2012


On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:52:01 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:

> We should check that we're not copying memory from beyond the end of the
> blob.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c
> index d85efad..eb76741 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/sess.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c
> @@ -395,6 +395,10 @@ static int decode_ntlmssp_challenge(char *bcc_ptr, int blob_len,
>  	ses->ntlmssp->server_flags = le32_to_cpu(pblob->NegotiateFlags);
>  	tioffset = le32_to_cpu(pblob->TargetInfoArray.BufferOffset);
>  	tilen = le16_to_cpu(pblob->TargetInfoArray.Length);
> +	if (tioffset > blob_len || tioffset + tilen > blob_len) {
> +		cERROR(1, "tioffset + tilen too high %u + %u", tioffset, tilen);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}

Good catch.

Do we really need a || here though? Would it not be sufficient to check
if tioffset + tilen > blob_len? Or are you concerned about that value
wrapping?

>  	if (tilen) {
>  		ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(tilen, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!ses->auth_key.response) {
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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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