Re: [CHECKER] 5 potential user-pointer errors that allow arbitrary reads from kernel

From: Junfeng Yang (yjf@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 15:53:59 EST


Thanks!

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:39:18PM -0700, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > [BUG] proc_dir_entry.write_proc can take tainted inputs
> >
> > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/usb/media/vicam.c:1117:vicam_write_proc_gain:
> > ERROR:TAINTED:1117:1117: passing tainted ptr 'buffer' to simple_strtoul
> > [Callstack:
> > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/net/core/pktgen.c:991:vicam_write_proc_gain((tainted
> > 1))]
> >
> > static int vicam_write_proc_gain(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
> > unsigned long count, void *data)
> > {
> > struct vicam_camera *cam = (struct vicam_camera *)data;
> >
> >
> > Error --->
> > cam->gain = simple_strtoul(buffer, NULL, 10);
>
> Real bug, I'll fix this.
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > [BUG] proc_dir_entry.write_proc can take tainted inputs
> >
> > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/usb/media/vicam.c:1107:vicam_write_proc_shutter:
> > ERROR:TAINTED:1107:1107: passing tainted ptr 'buffer' to simple_strtoul
> > [Callstack:
> > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/net/core/pktgen.c:991:vicam_write_proc_shutter((tainted
> > 1))]
> >
> > static int vicam_write_proc_shutter(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
> > unsigned long count, void *data)
> > {
> > struct vicam_camera *cam = (struct vicam_camera *)data;
> >
> >
> > Error --->
> > cam->shutter_speed = simple_strtoul(buffer, NULL, 10);
>
> Again, real bug, I'll fix it.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

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