[PATCH 1/2] ext4: Fix integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink()

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Fri Jul 12 13:10:12 CEST 2024


On 02.07.24 21:42, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> While zalloc() takes a size_t type, adding 1 to the le32 variable
> will overflow.
> A carefully crafted ext4 filesystem can exhibit an inode size of 0xffffffff
> and as consequence zalloc() will do a zero allocation.
>
> Later in the function the inode size is again used for copying data.
> So an attacker can overwrite memory.
>
> Avoid the overflow by using the __builtin_add_overflow() helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
> ---
>   fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> index 2ff0dca249..32364b72fb 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> @@ -2183,13 +2183,18 @@ static char *ext4fs_read_symlink(struct ext2fs_node *node)
>   	struct ext2fs_node *diro = node;
>   	int status;
>   	loff_t actread;
> +	size_t alloc_size;
>
>   	if (!diro->inode_read) {
>   		status = ext4fs_read_inode(diro->data, diro->ino, &diro->inode);
>   		if (status == 0)
>   			return NULL;
>   	}
> -	symlink = zalloc(le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size) + 1);
> +
> +	if (__builtin_add_overflow(le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size), 1, &alloc_size))

U-Boot is freestanding code. You cannot use built-ins.

Best regards

Heinrich

> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	symlink = zalloc(alloc_size);
>   	if (!symlink)
>   		return NULL;
>



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