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authorTimo Warns <[email protected]>2011-05-26 16:25:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2011-05-26 17:12:37 -0700
commit3eb8e74ec72736b9b9d728bad30484ec89c91dde (patch)
tree851f9165816e28ce43594a562698dd234e53d486 /lib/mpi/mpiutil.c
parent658c74cf3c98b1c9bc21e26731052db66251dfd8 (diff)
fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops
The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c) contains a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted GUID partition tables. This bug has security impacts, because it allows, for example, to prepare a storage device that crashes a kernel subsystem upon connecting the device (e.g., a "USB Stick of (Partial) Death"). crc = efi_crc32((const unsigned char *) (*gpt), le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_size)); computes a CRC32 checksum over gpt covering (*gpt)->header_size bytes. There is no validation of (*gpt)->header_size before the efi_crc32 call. A corrupted partition table may have large values for (*gpt)->header_size. In this case, the CRC32 computation access memory beyond the memory allocated for gpt, which may cause a kernel heap overflow. Validate value of GUID partition table header size. [[email protected]: fix layout and indenting] Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Domsch <[email protected]> Cc: Eugene Teo <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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