[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] CVE-2019-13104: ext4: check for underflow in ext4fs_read_file

Paul Emge paulemge at forallsecure.com
Mon Jul 8 23:37:05 UTC 2019


in ext4fs_read_file, it is possible for a broken/malicious file
system to cause a memcpy of a negative number of bytes, which
overflows all memory. This patch fixes the issue by checking for
a negative length.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge at forallsecure.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4fs.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c b/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
index 85dc122f30..e2b740cac4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
@@ -66,13 +66,15 @@ int ext4fs_read_file(struct ext2fs_node *node, loff_t pos,
 
 	ext_cache_init(&cache);
 
-	if (blocksize <= 0)
-		return -1;
-
 	/* Adjust len so it we can't read past the end of the file. */
 	if (len + pos > filesize)
 		len = (filesize - pos);
 
+	if (blocksize <= 0 || len <= 0) {
+		ext_cache_fini(&cache);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	blockcnt = lldiv(((len + pos) + blocksize - 1), blocksize);
 
 	for (i = lldiv(pos, blocksize); i < blockcnt; i++) {
-- 
2.20.1



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