netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ROSE: prevent heap corruption with bad facilities

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	drosenberg@...curity.com
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ROSE: prevent heap corruption with bad facilities

From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:43:43 -0400

> When parsing the FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS facilities field, it's possible for
> a remote host to provide more digipeaters than expected, resulting in
> heap corruption.  Check against ROSE_MAX_DIGIS to prevent overflows, and
> abort facilities parsing on failure.
> 
> Additionally, when parsing the FAC_CCITT_DEST_NSAP and
> FAC_CCITT_SRC_NSAP facilities fields, a remote host can provide a length
> of less than 10, resulting in an underflow in a memcpy size, causing a
> kernel panic due to massive heap corruption.  A length of greater than
> 20 results in a stack overflow of the callsign array.  Abort facilities
> parsing on these invalid length values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org

Applied.
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