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usb: misc: ftdi-elan: Fix off-by-one memory corruptions
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This patch fixes fives off-by-one bugs in the ftdi-elan driver code. The
bug can be triggered by plugging a USB adapter for CardBus 3G cards (model
U132 manufactured by Elan Digital Systems, Ltd), causing a kernel panic.
The fix was tested on Ubuntu 14.04.4 with 4.7.0-rc14.2.0-27-generic+ and
4.4.0-22-generic+ kernel. In the ftdi_elan_synchronize function, an
off-by-one memory corruption occurs when packet_bytes is equal or bigger
than m. After having read m bytes, that is bytes_read is equal to m, "
..\x00" is still copied to the stack variable causing an out bounds write
of 4 bytes, which overwrites the stack canary and results in a kernel
panic.

This off-by-one requires physical access to the machine. It is not
exploitable since we have no control on the overwritten data.  Similar
off-by-one bugs have been observed in 4 other functions:
ftdi_elan_stuck_waiting, ftdi_elan_read, ftdi_elan_edset_output and
ftdi_elan_flush_input_fifo.

Reported-by: Alex Palesandro <palexster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Han <xiao.han@orange.fr>
Tested-by: Paul Chaignon <pchaigno@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Xiao Han authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Aug 9, 2016
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
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Expand Up @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static ssize_t ftdi_elan_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
{
char data[30 *3 + 4];
char *d = data;
int m = (sizeof(data) - 1) / 3;
int m = (sizeof(data) - 1) / 3 - 1;
int bytes_read = 0;
int retry_on_empty = 10;
int retry_on_timeout = 5;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ wait:if (ftdi->disconnected > 0) {
int i = 0;
char data[30 *3 + 4];
char *d = data;
int m = (sizeof(data) - 1) / 3;
int m = (sizeof(data) - 1) / 3 - 1;
int l = 0;
struct u132_target *target = &ftdi->target[ed];
struct u132_command *command = &ftdi->command[
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if (packet_bytes > 2) {
char diag[30 *3 + 4];
char *d = diag;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3 - 1;
char *b = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer;
int bytes_read = 0;
diag[0] = 0;
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if (packet_bytes > 2) {
char diag[30 *3 + 4];
char *d = diag;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3 - 1;
char *b = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer;
int bytes_read = 0;
unsigned char c = 0;
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if (packet_bytes > 2) {
char diag[30 *3 + 4];
char *d = diag;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3;
int m = (sizeof(diag) - 1) / 3 - 1;
char *b = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer;
int bytes_read = 0;
diag[0] = 0;
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