linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/23] pefile: Parse a PE binary to find a key and a signature contained therein

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:48:17 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, pjones@...hat.com, jwboyer@...hat.com,
	mjg@...hat.com, dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com,
	zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/23] pefile: Parse a PE binary to find a key and a
 signature contained therein

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:31 AM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> Which means this loop will walk past the end of the memory (loop is
>> bounded by n_sections, so secs[loop] can go past datalen). While
>> data_addr and raw_data_size will stay bounded, the read of sec->name
>> can be out of bounds.
>
> Assuming n_sections is checked, sec->name can't be out of bounds because it's
> a char array, not a pointer.
>
>> (Also, do you want a "break" in there after the first .keylist is found, or
>> is this intentionally "use last key list"?)
>
> Actually, no I don't.  The loop also checks the limits on each section - which
> I need to do since I have to individually digest the sections later.
>
> Attached is a patch I'm applying to pefile_parse_binary() to be more rigorous
> about the checking of values in the PE binary.

Cool; looks good to me. When this gets into linux-next, we should
probably spend more time staring at it. :)

Thanks for the fixes!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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