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Message-ID: <20160911125142.GA20191@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:51:42 +0300
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
"moderated list:TPM DEVICE DRIVER"
<tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix buffer overflow in /dev/tpm0
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:19:00PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> tpm_write() does not check whether the buffer has at least enough space
> for the header before passing it to tpm_transmit() so an overflow can
> happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
This is usable neither as read nor write primitive for an exploit. Still
it makes sense to validate the input here.
/Jarkko
> ---
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> index fd863ff..6a67f7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t bufsiz,
> u32 count, ordinal;
> unsigned long stop;
>
> + if (bufsiz < TPM_HEADER_SIZE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> if (bufsiz > TPM_BUFSIZE)
> bufsiz = TPM_BUFSIZE;
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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