CVE-2013-1860 (published 2013-03-22T11:59Z)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wdm_in_callback function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted cdc-wdm USB device.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-119
cwe_name: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
description: The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
extended_description: 
            Certain languages allow direct addressing of memory locations and do not automatically ensure that these locations are valid for the memory buffer that is being referenced. This can cause read or write operations to be performed on memory locations that may be associated with other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Oliver Neukum
author_date: 2013-03-12 14:52:42+01:00
msg: USB: cdc-wdm: fix buffer overflow

The buffer for responses must not overflow.
If this would happen, set a flag, drop the data and return
an error after user space has read all remaining data.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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: cdc-wdm.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (usb, wdm_ids);
 #define WDM_RESPONDING		7
 #define WDM_SUSPENDING		8
 #define WDM_RESETTING		9
+#define WDM_OVERFLOW		10
 
 #define WDM_MAX			16
 
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ static void wdm_in_callback(struct urb *urb)
 {
 	struct wdm_device *desc = urb->context;
 	int status = urb->status;
+	int length = urb->actual_length;
 
 	spin_lock(&desc->iuspin);
 	clear_bit(WDM_RESPONDING, &desc->flags);
@@ -185,9 +187,17 @@ static void wdm_in_callback(struct urb *urb)
 	}
 
 	desc->rerr = status;
-	desc->reslength = urb->actual_length;
-	memmove(desc->ubuf + desc->length, desc->inbuf, desc->reslength);
-	desc->length += desc->reslength;
+	if (length + desc->length > desc->wMaxCommand) {
+		/* The buffer would overflow */
+		set_bit(WDM_OVERFLOW, &desc->flags);
+	} else {
+		/* we may already be in overflow */
+		if (!test_bit(WDM_OVERFLOW, &desc->flags)) {
+			memmove(desc->ubuf + desc->length, desc->inbuf, length);
+			desc->length += length;
+			desc->reslength = length;
+		}
+	}
 skip_error:
 	wake_up(&desc->wait);
 
@@ -435,6 +445,11 @@ static ssize_t wdm_read
 			rv = -ENODEV;
 			goto err;
 		}
+		if (test_bit(WDM_OVERFLOW, &desc->flags)) {
+			clear_bit(WDM_OVERFLOW, &desc->flags);
+			rv = -ENOBUFS;
+			goto err;
+		}
 		i++;
 		if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
 			if (!test_bit(WDM_READ, &desc->flags)) {
@@ -478,6 +493,7 @@ static ssize_t wdm_read
 			spin_unlock_irq(&desc->iuspin);
 			goto retry;
 		}
+
 		if (!desc->reslength) { /* zero length read */
 			dev_dbg(&desc->intf->dev, "%s: zero length - clearing WDM_READ\n", __func__);
 			clear_bit(WDM_READ, &desc->flags);
@@ -1004,6 +1020,7 @@ static int wdm_post_reset(struct usb_interface *intf)
 	struct wdm_device *desc = wdm_find_device(intf);
 	int rv;
 
+	clear_bit(WDM_OVERFLOW, &desc->flags);
 	clear_bit(WDM_RESETTING, &desc->flags);
 	rv = recover_from_urb_loss(desc);
 	mutex_unlock(&desc->wlock);

programming_language: C