On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 12:02:10PM +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 05:31:59PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely
> > 
> > Currently, there is no overflow-check with memdup_user().
> 
> This is false. 
> Therefore, I'd like to dispute this CVE.
> 
> The overflow check is in the kexec_load_check()
> function called shortly before the memdup_user() call:
> 
> 
>       SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, 
> nr_segments,
>                       struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, 
> flags)
>       {
>               result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
>               if (result)
>                       return result;
>       ...
>               ksegments = memdup_user(segments, nr_segments * 
> sizeof(ksegments[0]));
>       ...
>       }
> 
>       #define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
>       static inline int kexec_load_check(unsigned long nr_segments,
>                                          unsigned long flags)
>       {
>       ...
>               if (nr_segments > KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX)
>                       return -EINVAL;
>       }

Nice, but then why was this commit worded this way?  Now we check twice?
Double safe?  Should it be reverted?

I'll go revoke this, thanks for the review!

greg k-h

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