[PATCH 5.4 019/104] airo: Fix possible info leak in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 28 2020 - 09:01:51 EST


From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d6bce2137f5d6bb1093e96d2f801479099b28094 ]

The driver for Cisco Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards (airo.c),
implements AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE in airo_ioctl().

The ioctl handler copies an aironet_ioctl struct from userspace, which
includes a command and a length. Some of the commands are handled in
readrids(), which kmalloc()'s a buffer of RIDSIZE (2048) bytes.

That buffer is then passed to PC4500_readrid(), which has two cases.
The else case does some setup and then reads up to RIDSIZE bytes from
the hardware into the kmalloc()'ed buffer.

Here len == RIDSIZE, pBuf is the kmalloc()'ed buffer:

// read the rid length field
bap_read(ai, pBuf, 2, BAP1);
// length for remaining part of rid
len = min(len, (int)le16_to_cpu(*(__le16*)pBuf)) - 2;
...
// read remainder of the rid
rc = bap_read(ai, ((__le16*)pBuf)+1, len, BAP1);

PC4500_readrid() then returns to readrids() which does:

len = comp->len;
if (copy_to_user(comp->data, iobuf, min(len, (int)RIDSIZE))) {

Where comp->len is the user controlled length field.

So if the "rid length field" returned by the hardware is < 2048, and
the user requests 2048 bytes in comp->len, we will leak the previous
contents of the kmalloc()'ed buffer to userspace.

Fix it by kzalloc()'ing the buffer.

Found by Ilja by code inspection, not tested as I don't have the
required hardware.

Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
@@ -7813,7 +7813,7 @@ static int readrids(struct net_device *d
return -EINVAL;
}

- if ((iobuf = kmalloc(RIDSIZE, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
+ if ((iobuf = kzalloc(RIDSIZE, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

PC4500_readrid(ai,ridcode,iobuf,RIDSIZE, 1);