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ARM: 6891/1: prevent heap corruption in OABI semtimedop
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:48:07 +0000 (15:48 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:53:14 +0000 (15:53 +0100)
When CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is set, the wrapper for semtimedop does not
bound the nsops argument.  A sufficiently large value will cause an
integer overflow in allocation size, followed by copying too much data
into the allocated buffer.  Fix this by restricting nsops to SEMOPM.
Untested.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c

index 4ad8da15ef2b3972f4412631ceb1a5cf1d63eba2..af0aaebf4de62e16e70fcfcad8ccafece2879217 100644 (file)
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_oabi_semtimedop(int semid,
        long err;
        int i;
 
-       if (nsops < 1)
+       if (nsops < 1 || nsops > SEMOPM)
                return -EINVAL;
        sops = kmalloc(sizeof(*sops) * nsops, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!sops)