Re: [PATCH 1/1] cifs: potential memory leaks when parsing mnt opts

[Scott Lovenberg]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Taesoo Kim <taesoo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/21/15 at 09:10pm, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Althouhg mkfs.cifs in userspace performs a bit of sanitization
>> > (e.g., forcing one user option), current implementation is not
>> > robust. Other options such as iocharset and domainanme are similary
>> > vulnerable.
>> >
>>
>> I assume you mean mount.cifs?  :-) Anyways, good catch.
>
> Right. FYI, I've tried mangling password field (e.g., pass=a,user=A
> &c); Skimming through the code (just a few minutes), there are a few
> potential places that don't sanitize its string, unlike passwd. But
> don't have much time to play with for now :)
>
> Thanks,
> Taesoo
>
>> --
>> Peace and Blessings,
>> -Scott.

Without even looking at the code, I can tell you that's probably my
fault if you're talking about the code in mount.cifs.  I was pretty
paranoid about the password field but not so paranoid about the other
parameters.  I'll take a look late tonight or some time tomorrow and
try to patch over my shame. :)

-- 
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.
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