linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] digsig: Fix memory leakage in digsig_verify

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:20:19 +0200
From:	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] digsig: Fix memory leakage in digsig_verify_rsa()

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:02 AM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> What's the practical impact of this?  Could an attacker kill the machine?
>
>

It might be possible slowly to eat the whole memory if there were too
many memory verifications.
This is a bug and the patch will be applied to stable.
Should go to mainline as well.

I suggest to apply it and also couple of other patches I sent yesterday.

thanks.

- Dmitry

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin
>> <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com> wrote:
>> > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
>> >
>> > digsig_verify_rsa() does not free kmalloc'ed buffer returned by
>> > mpi_get_buffer().
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>
>> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> > ---
>> >  lib/digsig.c |    2 ++
>> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/lib/digsig.c b/lib/digsig.c
>> > index 8c0e629..dc2be7e 100644
>> > --- a/lib/digsig.c
>> > +++ b/lib/digsig.c
>> > @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ static int digsig_verify_rsa(struct key *key,
>> >         memset(out1, 0, head);
>> >         memcpy(out1 + head, p, l);
>> >
>> > +       kfree(p);
>> > +
>> >         err = pkcs_1_v1_5_decode_emsa(out1, len, mblen, out2, &len);
>> >         if (err)
>> >                 goto err;
>> > --
>> > 1.7.10.4
>> >
>>
>> James, can you please apply this patch.
>>
>> - Dmitry
>>
>
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