Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix buffer overflow in /dev/tpm0

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Sun Sep 11 2016 - 08:51:52 EST


On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:19:00PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> tpm_write() does not check whether the buffer has at least enough space
> for the header before passing it to tpm_transmit() so an overflow can
> happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is usable neither as read nor write primitive for an exploit. Still
it makes sense to validate the input here.

/Jarkko

> ---
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> index fd863ff..6a67f7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t bufsiz,
> u32 count, ordinal;
> unsigned long stop;
>
> + if (bufsiz < TPM_HEADER_SIZE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> if (bufsiz > TPM_BUFSIZE)
> bufsiz = TPM_BUFSIZE;
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>