CVE-2017-5548 (published 2017-02-06T06:59Z)

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

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:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

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: Stefan Schmidt
author_date: 2016-12-15 18:40:14+01:00
msg: ieee802154: atusb: do not use the stack for buffers to make them DMA able

From 4.9 we should really avoid using the stack here as this will not be DMA
able on various platforms. This changes the buffers already being present in
time of 4.9 being released. This should go into stable as well.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.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: atusb.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -117,13 +117,26 @@ static int atusb_read_reg(struct atusb *atusb, uint8_t reg)
 {
 	struct usb_device *usb_dev = atusb->usb_dev;
 	int ret;
+	uint8_t *buffer;
 	uint8_t value;
 
+	buffer = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	dev_dbg(&usb_dev->dev, "atusb: reg = 0x%x\n", reg);
 	ret = atusb_control_msg(atusb, usb_rcvctrlpipe(usb_dev, 0),
 				ATUSB_REG_READ, ATUSB_REQ_FROM_DEV,
-				0, reg, &value, 1, 1000);
-	return ret >= 0 ? value : ret;
+				0, reg, buffer, 1, 1000);
+
+	if (ret >= 0) {
+		value = buffer[0];
+		kfree(buffer);
+		return value;
+	} else {
+		kfree(buffer);
+		return ret;
+	}
 }
 
 static int atusb_write_subreg(struct atusb *atusb, uint8_t reg, uint8_t mask,
@@ -608,9 +621,13 @@ static const struct ieee802154_ops atusb_ops = {
 static int atusb_get_and_show_revision(struct atusb *atusb)
 {
 	struct usb_device *usb_dev = atusb->usb_dev;
-	unsigned char buffer[3];
+	unsigned char *buffer;
 	int ret;
 
+	buffer = kmalloc(3, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	/* Get a couple of the ATMega Firmware values */
 	ret = atusb_control_msg(atusb, usb_rcvctrlpipe(usb_dev, 0),
 				ATUSB_ID, ATUSB_REQ_FROM_DEV, 0, 0,
@@ -631,15 +648,20 @@ static int atusb_get_and_show_revision(struct atusb *atusb)
 		dev_info(&usb_dev->dev, "Please update to version 0.2 or newer");
 	}
 
+	kfree(buffer);
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static int atusb_get_and_show_build(struct atusb *atusb)
 {
 	struct usb_device *usb_dev = atusb->usb_dev;
-	char build[ATUSB_BUILD_SIZE + 1];
+	char *build;
 	int ret;
 
+	build = kmalloc(ATUSB_BUILD_SIZE + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!build)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	ret = atusb_control_msg(atusb, usb_rcvctrlpipe(usb_dev, 0),
 				ATUSB_BUILD, ATUSB_REQ_FROM_DEV, 0, 0,
 				build, ATUSB_BUILD_SIZE, 1000);
@@ -648,6 +670,7 @@ static int atusb_get_and_show_build(struct atusb *atusb)
 		dev_info(&usb_dev->dev, "Firmware: build %s\n", build);
 	}
 
+	kfree(build);
 	return ret;
 }
 

programming_language: C