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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-10-29 22:06:04 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-10-30 12:24:49 -0700
commit201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b (patch)
treed05f085f110325cf7e8c2bdda642b561225989ae /arch
parent7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1 (diff)
downloadlinux-201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b.tar.bz2
uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
index 829df49dee99..41ebbfebb333 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c
@@ -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);