[U-Boot] [PATCH] FAT: buffer overflow with FAT12/16

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Wed Oct 20 08:51:45 CEST 2010


Last commit 3831530dcb7b71329c272ccd6181f8038b6a6dd0a was intended
"explicitly specify FAT12/16 root directory parsing buffer size, instead
of relying on cluster size". Howver, the underlying function requires
the size of the buffer in blocks, not in bytes, and instead of passing
a double sector size a request for 1024 blocks is sent. This generates
a buffer overflow with overwriting of other structure (in the case seen,
USB structures were overwritten).

Signed-off-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
CC: Mikhail Zolotaryov <lebon at lebon.org.ua>

---
 fs/fat/fat.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.c b/fs/fat/fat.c
index 744e961..a75e4f2 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat.c
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ do_fat_read (const char *filename, void *buffer, unsigned long maxsize,
 		if (disk_read(cursect,
 				(mydata->fatsize == 32) ?
 				(mydata->clust_size) :
-				LINEAR_PREFETCH_SIZE,
+				LINEAR_PREFETCH_SIZE / SECTOR_SIZE,
 				do_fat_read_block) < 0) {
 			debug("Error: reading rootdir block\n");
 			return -1;
-- 
1.7.1



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