[PATCH 5.10] module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
From: Roman Demidov
Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 05:57:40 EST
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 391e982bfa632b8315235d8be9c0a81374c6a19c upstream.
It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:
if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391
Fixes: ec2a29593c83 ("module: harden ELF info handling")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
[rebased patch onto modules-next]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Roman Demidov <roman.demidov.nn@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2022-49444
kernel/module.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 7f3ba597af6c..48be28a3af2e 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3035,6 +3035,10 @@ static int elf_validity_check(struct load_info *info)
* strings in the section safe.
*/
info->secstrings = (void *)info->hdr + strhdr->sh_offset;
+ if (strhdr->sh_size == 0) {
+ pr_err("empty section name table\n");
+ return -ENOEXEC;
+ }
if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0')
return -ENOEXEC;
--
2.53.0