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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] net: smc91c111: check packet number
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P J P |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] net: smc91c111: check packet number and data register index |
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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:35:06 +0530 (IST) |
+-- On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Peter Maydell wrote --+
| The queue_tx function checks s->tx_fifo_len (because
| it's about to put something into s->tx_fifo[]), but it
| does not check anything about the values it puts into
| tx_fifo[]. The do_tx function then does
| packetnum = s->tx_fifo[i];
| p = &s->data[packetnum][0];
| where packetnum could be out of bounds.
Oh, sorry. Fixed in patch v3.
| If the passed 'packet' value is greater than 31 or
| negative then the function will invoke undefined
| behaviour. If it's less than 32 but bigger than the
| max number of packets then it will set allocated to
| a value it ought not to be able to hold, which makes
| the rest of the code harder to reason about.
|
| It can be set by malicious incoming vmstate data
| (and by arranging for release_packet() to be called
| with various out-of-bounds values, as described above).
Sent patch v3. Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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