uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:06:04 +0000 (22:06 +0300)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:24:49 +0000 (12:24 -0700)
We don't cap the size of buffer from the user so we could write past the
end of the array here.  Only root can write to this file.

Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@goesec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c

index 829df49..41ebbfe 100644 (file)
@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ static ssize_t exitcode_proc_write(struct file *file,
                const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
 {
        char *end, buf[sizeof("nnnnn\0")];
+       size_t size;
        int tmp;
 
-       if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count))
+       size = min(count, sizeof(buf));
+       if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, size))
                return -EFAULT;
 
        tmp = simple_strtol(buf, &end, 0);