irda: prevent heap corruption on invalid nickname
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PATCH v2 1/1 irda: prevent heap corruption on invalid nickname
Invalid nicknames containing only spaces will result in an underflow in a memcpy size calculation, subsequently destroying the heap and panicking.
v2 also catches the case where the provided nickname is longer than the buffer size, which can result in controllable heap corruption.
Signed-off-by Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
--- net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c +3 -0
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ irnet_ctrl_write(irnet_socket * ap,while (isspace (start[length -1 ])) length--; +DABORT (length <5 || length >NICKNAME_MAX_LEN +5 , + -EINVAL ,CTRL_ERROR ,"Invalid nickname.\n" ); +/* Copy the name for later reuse */ memcpy (ap->rname, start +5 , length -5 ); ap->rname[length -5 ] ='\0' ;
From: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:14:30 -0400
Quoted 9 lines
Invalid nicknames containing only spaces will result in an underflow in a memcpy size calculation, subsequently destroying the heap and panicking.
v2 also catches the case where the provided nickname is longer than the buffer size, which can result in controllable heap corruption.
Signed-off-by Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Applied.