[PATCH 1/1] efi_loader: fix invocation of efi_prepare_aligned_image

Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Sun Jul 30 20:42:02 CEST 2023


Hi Heinrich 

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 09:34:53AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> When passing a pointer to a size_t variable to a function writing an u64
> value to the address a buffer overrun occurs on 32bit systems.
> 
> Fixes: 163a0d7e2cbd ("efi_loader: add PE/COFF image measurement")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c
> index 26df0da16c..71c713048d 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.c
> @@ -591,6 +591,8 @@ static bool efi_image_authenticate(void *efi, size_t efi_size)
>  	struct pkcs7_message *msg = NULL;
>  	struct efi_signature_store *db = NULL, *dbx = NULL;
>  	void *new_efi = NULL;
> +	u64 new_efi_size = efi_size;
> +
>  	u8 *auth, *wincerts_end;
>  	size_t auth_size;
>  	bool ret = false;
> @@ -600,11 +602,11 @@ static bool efi_image_authenticate(void *efi, size_t efi_size)
>  	if (!efi_secure_boot_enabled())
>  		return true;
>  
> -	new_efi = efi_prepare_aligned_image(efi, (u64 *)&efi_size);
> +	new_efi = efi_prepare_aligned_image(efi, &new_efi_size);
>  	if (!new_efi)
>  		return false;
>  
> -	if (!efi_image_parse(new_efi, efi_size, &regs, &wincerts,
> +	if (!efi_image_parse(new_efi, new_efi_size, &regs, &wincerts,
>  			     &wincerts_len)) {
>  		log_err("Parsing PE executable image failed\n");
>  		goto out;
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 

Dan already sent this here [0] and I was the one that requested a v2
changing the prototype of efi_prepare_aligned_image().
Since that proved to be more complicated we can pick the original patch instead

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/40c5713c-3caa-4882-aa86-065689e83270@moroto.mountain/

Cheers
/Ilias


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