This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: ncpfs: memory corruption in ncp_read_kernel()
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: staging-ncpfs-memory-corruption-in-ncp_read_kernel.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 4c41aa24baa4ed338241d05494f2c595c885af8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:07:45 +0300 Subject: staging: ncpfs: memory corruption in ncp_read_kernel()
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
commit 4c41aa24baa4ed338241d05494f2c595c885af8f upstream.
If the server is malicious then *bytes_read could be larger than the size of the "target" buffer. It would lead to memory corruption when we do the memcpy().
Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <Silvio Cesare silvio.cesare@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c +++ b/fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c @@ -980,6 +980,10 @@ ncp_read_kernel(struct ncp_server *serve goto out; } *bytes_read = ncp_reply_be16(server, 0); + if (*bytes_read > to_read) { + result = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } source = ncp_reply_data(server, 2 + (offset & 1));
memcpy(target, source, *bytes_read);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are
queue-3.18/staging-ncpfs-memory-corruption-in-ncp_read_kernel.patch