linux-kernel - Re: [v2.6.34-stable 60/77] udf: Avoid run away loop when partition table length is corrupted

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:43:24 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.34-stable 60/77] udf: Avoid run away loop when partition
 table length is corrupted

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 18:35 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> 
>                    -------------------
>     This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
>     http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
>     If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
>                    -------------------
> 
> commit adee11b2085bee90bd8f4f52123ffb07882d6256 upstream.
> 
> Check provided length of partition table so that (possibly maliciously)
> corrupted partition table cannot cause accessing data beyond current buffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> [PG: in 2.6.34 udf_err() is called udf_error()]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
[...]

There's a follow-up I think you should add:

commit 57b9655d01ef057a523e810d29c37ac09b80eead
Author: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Date:   Tue Jul 10 17:58:04 2012 +0200

    udf: Improve table length check to avoid possible overflow

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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