linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFC: Fix possible memory corruption when handling SHDLC I-Frame commands

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Date:   Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:21:35 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc:     security@...nel.org, kdeus@...gle.com,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Allen Pais <allen.pais@...cle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFC: Fix possible memory corruption when handling
 SHDLC I-Frame commands

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> When handling SHDLC I-Frame commands "pipe" field used for indexing
> into an array should be checked before usage. If left unchecked it
> might access memory outside of the array of size NFC_HCI_MAX_PIPES(127).
> 
> Malformed NFC HCI frames could be injected by a malicious NFC device
> communicating with the device being attacked (remote attack vector),
> or even by an attacker with physical access to the I2C bus such that
> they could influence the data transfers on that bus (local attack vector).
> skb->data is controlled by the attacker and has only been sanitized in
> the most trivial ways (CRC check), therefore we can consider the
> create_info struct and all of its members to tainted. 'create_info->pipe'
> with max value of 255 (uint8) is used to take an offset of the
> hdev->pipes array of 127 elements which can lead to OOB write.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kevin Deus <kdeus@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>