Re: [PATCH] partitions/efi: Fix integer overflow in GPT size calculation

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Jan 17 2017 - 11:00:59 EST


On 15 January 2017 at 22:31, Alden Tondettar <alden.tondettar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If a GUID Partition Table claims to have more than 2**25 entries, the
> calculation of the partition table size in alloc_read_gpt_entries() will
> overflow a 32-bit integer and not enough space will be allocated for the
> table.
>
> Nothing seems to get written out of bounds, but later efi_partition() will
> read up to 32768 bytes from a 128 byte buffer, possibly OOPSing or exposing
> information to /proc/partitions and uevents.
>
> The problem exists on both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.
>
> Fix the overflow and also print a meaningful debug message if the table
> size is too large.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alden Tondettar <alden.tondettar@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> block/partitions/efi.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
> index bcd86e5..39f70d9 100644
> --- a/block/partitions/efi.c
> +++ b/block/partitions/efi.c
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static gpt_entry *alloc_read_gpt_entries(struct parsed_partitions *state,
> if (!gpt)
> return NULL;
>
> - count = le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) *
> + count = (size_t)le32_to_cpu(gpt->num_partition_entries) *
> le32_to_cpu(gpt->sizeof_partition_entry);
> if (!count)
> return NULL;
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(struct parsed_partitions *state, u64 lba,
> gpt_header **gpt, gpt_entry **ptes)
> {
> u32 crc, origcrc;
> - u64 lastlba;
> + u64 lastlba, pt_size;
>
> if (!ptes)
> return 0;
> @@ -434,13 +434,20 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(struct parsed_partitions *state, u64 lba,
> goto fail;
> }
>
> + /* Sanity check partition table size */
> + pt_size = (u64)le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->num_partition_entries) *
> + le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->sizeof_partition_entry);
> + if (pt_size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
> + pr_debug("GUID Partition Table is too large: %llu > %lu bytes\n",
> + (unsigned long long)pt_size, KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE);
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> if (!(*ptes = alloc_read_gpt_entries(state, *gpt)))
> goto fail;
>
> /* Check the GUID Partition Entry Array CRC */
> - crc = efi_crc32((const unsigned char *) (*ptes),
> - le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->num_partition_entries) *
> - le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->sizeof_partition_entry));
> + crc = efi_crc32((const unsigned char *) (*ptes), pt_size);
>
> if (crc != le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->partition_entry_array_crc32)) {
> pr_debug("GUID Partition Entry Array CRC check failed.\n");
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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