Karmic CVE: bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data, CVE-2010-4162

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Fri Feb 18 21:56:04 UTC 2011


On 02/18/2011 12:07 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> The following changes since commit 41866a96c222c7d5d3da3abffb166ff3b80e1f3b:
>   Steve Conklin (1):
>         UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.31-22.73
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-karmic.git CVE-2010-4162
> 
> Jens Axboe (1):
>       bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data, CVE-2010-4162
> 
>  fs/bio.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> From ace13f458e62d5ed3722e61e4fc0c39ca90ddf15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe at fusionio.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:36:25 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data, CVE-2010-4162
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721441
> 
> CVE-2010-4162
> 
> commit cb4644cac4a2797afc847e6c92736664d4b0ea34 upstream.
> 
> If the iovec is being set up in a way that causes uaddr + PAGE_SIZE
> to overflow, we could end up attempting to map a huge number of
> pages. Check for this invalid input type.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg at vsecurity.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe at fusionio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/bio.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
> index 7673800..8bcc085 100644
> --- a/fs/bio.c
> +++ b/fs/bio.c
> @@ -813,6 +813,12 @@ struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
>  		end = (uaddr + iov[i].iov_len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  		start = uaddr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * Overflow, abort
> +		 */
> +		if (end < start)
> +			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
>  		nr_pages += end - start;
>  		len += iov[i].iov_len;
>  	}
> @@ -939,6 +945,12 @@ static struct bio *__bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
>  		unsigned long end = (uaddr + len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  		unsigned long start = uaddr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * Overflow, abort
> +		 */
> +		if (end < start)
> +			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
>  		nr_pages += end - start;
>  		/*
>  		 * buffer must be aligned to at least hardsector size for now
> @@ -966,7 +978,7 @@ static struct bio *__bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
>  		unsigned long start = uaddr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  		const int local_nr_pages = end - start;
>  		const int page_limit = cur_page + local_nr_pages;
> -		
> +
>  		ret = get_user_pages_fast(uaddr, local_nr_pages,
>  				write_to_vm, &pages[cur_page]);
>  		if (ret < local_nr_pages) {

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>





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