linux-kernel - [PATCH] crypto_user: Fix out-of-bounds read

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:30:28 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	security@...nel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto_user: Fix out-of-bounds read

This is unlikely to be exploitable for anything except an OOPS.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
---

Notes:
    This is entirely untested, but it looks obviously correct to me.

 crypto/crypto_user.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/crypto_user.c b/crypto/crypto_user.c
index 1512e41..bc7c4b5 100644
--- a/crypto/crypto_user.c
+++ b/crypto/crypto_user.c
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static int crypto_user_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	int type, err;
 
 	type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
-	if (type > CRYPTO_MSG_MAX)
+	if (type < CRYPTO_MSG_BASE || type > CRYPTO_MSG_MAX)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	type -= CRYPTO_MSG_BASE;
-- 
1.9.0

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