eCryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs
authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:30:44 +0000 (11:30 +0100)
committerTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:43:39 +0000 (14:43 -0600)
commitdb10e556518eb9d21ee92ff944530d84349684f4
tree84a82f496a4fe4ee90812b5d7f2cd358f9730911
parentbb4503615d95d6826b7907986ad574e3157877e8
eCryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs

A malicious count value specified when writing to /dev/ecryptfs may
result in a a very large kernel memory allocation.

This patch peeks at the specified packet payload size, adds that to the
size of the packet headers and compares the result with the write count
value. The resulting maximum memory allocation size is approximately 532
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c