Re: [PATCH] UBI: Validate data_size

From: David Gstir
Date: Thu Sep 24 2015 - 06:38:29 EST



> On 22.09.2015, at 23:58, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make sure that data_size is less than LEB size.
> Otherwise a handcrafted UBI image is able to trigger
> an out of bounds memory access in ubi_compare_lebs().
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
> index 5bbd1f0..1fc23e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
> @@ -926,6 +926,11 @@ static int validate_vid_hdr(const struct ubi_device *ubi,
> goto bad;
> }
>
> + if (data_size > ubi->leb_size) {
> + ubi_err(ubi, "bad data_size");
> + goto bad;
> + }
> +

Nice catch!

Reviewed-by: David Gstir <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>--
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