CVE-2012-6701 (published 2016-05-02T10:59Z)

Integer overflow in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large AIO iovec.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-190
cwe_name: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
description: The product performs a calculation that can
         produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic
         assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than
         the original value. This occurs when an integer value is
         incremented to a value that is too large to store in the
         associated representation. When this occurs, the value may
         become a very small or negative number.
extended_description: 
            
            
            
            
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Linus Torvalds
author_date: 2012-05-21 16:06:20-07:00
msg: vfs: make AIO use the proper rw_verify_area() area helpers

We had for some reason overlooked the AIO interface, and it didn't use
the proper rw_verify_area() helper function that checks (for example)
mandatory locking on the file, and that the size of the access doesn't
cause us to overflow the provided offset limits etc.

Instead, AIO did just the security_file_permission() thing (that
rw_verify_area() also does) directly.

This fixes it to do all the proper helper functions, which not only
means that now mandatory file locking works with AIO too, we can
actually remove lines of code.

Reported-by: Manish Honap <manish_honap_vit@yahoo.co.in>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: aio.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1456,6 +1456,10 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_vectored_rw(int type, struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;
 
+	ret = rw_verify_area(type, kiocb->ki_filp, &kiocb->ki_pos, ret);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+
 	kiocb->ki_nr_segs = kiocb->ki_nbytes;
 	kiocb->ki_cur_seg = 0;
 	/* ki_nbytes/left now reflect bytes instead of segs */
@@ -1467,11 +1471,17 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_vectored_rw(int type, struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t aio_setup_single_vector(struct kiocb *kiocb)
+static ssize_t aio_setup_single_vector(int type, struct file * file, struct kiocb *kiocb)
 {
+	int bytes;
+
+	bytes = rw_verify_area(type, file, &kiocb->ki_pos, kiocb->ki_left);
+	if (bytes < 0)
+		return bytes;
+
 	kiocb->ki_iovec = &kiocb->ki_inline_vec;
 	kiocb->ki_iovec->iov_base = kiocb->ki_buf;
-	kiocb->ki_iovec->iov_len = kiocb->ki_left;
+	kiocb->ki_iovec->iov_len = bytes;
 	kiocb->ki_nr_segs = 1;
 	kiocb->ki_cur_seg = 0;
 	return 0;
@@ -1496,10 +1506,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 		if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, kiocb->ki_buf,
 			kiocb->ki_left)))
 			break;
-		ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_READ);
-		if (unlikely(ret))
-			break;
-		ret = aio_setup_single_vector(kiocb);
+		ret = aio_setup_single_vector(READ, file, kiocb);
 		if (ret)
 			break;
 		ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -1514,10 +1521,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 		if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, kiocb->ki_buf,
 			kiocb->ki_left)))
 			break;
-		ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE);
-		if (unlikely(ret))
-			break;
-		ret = aio_setup_single_vector(kiocb);
+		ret = aio_setup_single_vector(WRITE, file, kiocb);
 		if (ret)
 			break;
 		ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -1528,9 +1532,6 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 		ret = -EBADF;
 		if (unlikely(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)))
 			break;
-		ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_READ);
-		if (unlikely(ret))
-			break;
 		ret = aio_setup_vectored_rw(READ, kiocb, compat);
 		if (ret)
 			break;
@@ -1542,9 +1543,6 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
 		ret = -EBADF;
 		if (unlikely(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)))
 			break;
-		ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE);
-		if (unlikely(ret))
-			break;
 		ret = aio_setup_vectored_rw(WRITE, kiocb, compat);
 		if (ret)
 			break;

programming_language: C