linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Fix 'type' check leading to overflow

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Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:17:46 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Alistair Strachan <astrachan@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Fix 'type' check leading to overflow

Hi Alistair,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:32:48 EET Alistair Strachan wrote:
> From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>

Are you sure you don't want to keep authorship ? I've merely reviewed v1 and 
proposed an alternative implementation :-) Let me know what you would prefer 
and I'll apply this to my tree.

> When initially testing the Camera Terminal Descriptor wTerminalType
> field (buffer[4]), no mask is used. Later in the function, the MSB is
> overloaded to store the descriptor subtype, and so a mask of 0x7fff
> is used to check the type.
> 
> If a descriptor is specially crafted to set this overloaded bit in the
> original wTerminalType field, the initial type check will fail (falling
> through, without adjusting the buffer size), but the later type checks
> will pass, assuming the buffer has been made suitably large, causing an
> overflow.
> 
> Avoid this problem by checking for the MSB in the wTerminalType field.
> If the bit is set, assume the descriptor is bad, and abort parsing it.
> 
> Originally reported here:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/syzkaller/Ot1fOE6v1d8
> A similar (non-compiling) patch was provided at that time.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@...gle.com>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com
> ---
> v2: Use an alternative fix suggested by Laurent
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 14 +++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c index bc369a0934a3..7fde3ce642c4
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> @@ -1065,11 +1065,19 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct
> uvc_device *dev, return -EINVAL;
>  		}
> 
> -		/* Make sure the terminal type MSB is not null, otherwise it
> -		 * could be confused with a unit.
> +		/*
> +		 * Reject invalid terminal types that would cause issues:
> +		 *
> +		 * - The high byte must be non-zero, otherwise it would be
> +		 *   confused with a unit.
> +		 *
> +		 * - Bit 15 must be 0, as we use it internally as a terminal
> +		 *   direction flag.
> +		 *
> +		 * Other unknown types are accepted.
>  		 */
>  		type = get_unaligned_le16(&buffer[4]);
> -		if ((type & 0xff00) == 0) {
> +		if ((type & 0x7f00) == 0 || (type & 0x8000) != 0) {
>  			uvc_trace(UVC_TRACE_DESCR, "device %d videocontrol "
>  				"interface %d INPUT_TERMINAL %d has invalid "
>  				"type 0x%04x, skipping\n", udev->devnum,

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart