ACK: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix incorrect strncpy() in hidp_setup_hid()

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Tue Apr 9 11:06:11 UTC 2013


On 09/04/13 11:54, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Hit 'send' too soon... Forgot to specify this is for the Lucid kernel,
> to fix CVE-2013-0349.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:52:31AM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> From: Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org>
>>
>> CVE-2013-0349
>>
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1134503
>>
>> The length parameter should be sizeof(req->name) - 1 because there is no
>> guarantee that string provided by userspace will contain the trailing
>> '\0'.
>>
>> Can be easily reproduced by manually setting req->name to 128 non-zero
>> bytes prior to ioctl(HIDPCONNADD) and checking the device name setup on
>> input subsystem:
>>
>> $ cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00\:04/tty/ttyS0/hci0/hci0\:1/input8/name
>> AAAAAA[...]AAAAAAAAf0:af:f0:af:f0:af
>>
>> ("f0:af:f0:af:f0:af" is the device bluetooth address, taken from "phys"
>> field in struct hid_device due to overflow.)
>>
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org>
>> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel at holtmann.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan at collabora.co.uk>
>> (back ported from commit 0a9ab9bdb3e891762553f667066190c1d22ad62b)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c b/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
>> index 49d8495..0c2c59d 100644
>> --- a/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
>> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
>> @@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ static int hidp_setup_hid(struct hidp_session *session,
>>  	hid->version = req->version;
>>  	hid->country = req->country;
>>  
>> -	strncpy(hid->name, req->name, 128);
>> +	strncpy(hid->name, req->name, sizeof(req->name) - 1);
>>  	strncpy(hid->phys, batostr(&src), 64);
>>  	strncpy(hid->uniq, batostr(&dst), 64);
>>  
>> -- 
>> 1.8.1.2
>>
>>
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> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Luis
> 
Simple one liner from upstream. looks fine to me.

Acked-by Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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