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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, upstream+barebox@sigma-star.at
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink()
Date: Tue,  2 Jul 2024 21:44:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240702194427.936-1-richard@nod.at> (raw)

While zalloc() takes a size_t type, adding 1 to the le32 variable
will overflow.
A carefully crafted ext4 filesystem can exhibit an inode size of 0xffffffff
and as consequence zalloc() will do a zero allocation.

Later in the function the inode size is again used for copying data.
So an attacker can overwrite memory.

Avoid the overflow by using the __builtin_add_overflow() helper.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
---
I have found and verified this bug in u-boot.
But Barebox uses the same code, so it is most likely affected too.

Thanks,
//richard
---
 fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
index 4bfb55ad0d..a38593105f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
@@ -369,13 +369,18 @@ char *ext4fs_read_symlink(struct ext2fs_node *node)
 	char *symlink;
 	struct ext2fs_node *diro = node;
 	int status, ret;
+	size_t alloc_size;
 
 	if (!diro->inode_read) {
 		ret = ext4fs_read_inode(diro->data, diro->ino, &diro->inode);
 		if (ret)
 			return NULL;
 	}
-	symlink = zalloc(le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size) + 1);
+
+	if (__builtin_add_overflow(le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size), 1, &alloc_size))
+		return NULL;
+
+	symlink = zalloc(alloc_size);
 	if (!symlink)
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.35.3




             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-02 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-02 19:44 Richard Weinberger [this message]
2024-07-17  6:17 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2024-07-30  9:32 ` Sascha Hauer

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