[PATCH 3.12-rc4] cifs: ntstatus_to_dos_map[] is not terminated

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Mon Oct 14 09:38:38 MDT 2013


On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:29:03 -0600
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:

> Functions that walk the ntstatus_to_dos_map[] array could
> run off the end. For example, ntstatus_to_dos() loops
> while ntstatus_to_dos_map[].ntstatus is not 0. Granted,
> this is mostly theoretical, but could be used as a DOS attack
> if the error code in the SMB header is bogus.
> 
> Cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/netmisc.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
> index af847e1..651a527 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
> @@ -780,7 +780,9 @@ static const struct {
>  	ERRDOS, ERRnoaccess, 0xc0000290}, {
>  	ERRDOS, ERRbadfunc, 0xc000029c}, {
>  	ERRDOS, ERRsymlink, NT_STATUS_STOPPED_ON_SYMLINK}, {
> -	ERRDOS, ERRinvlevel, 0x007c0001}, };
> +	ERRDOS, ERRinvlevel, 0x007c0001}, {
> +	0, 0, 0 }
> +};
>  
>  /*****************************************************************************
>   Print an error message from the status code

Nice catch.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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