On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:30:46 +0900
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
> 
> Sashiko reported that on 32-bit systems, if the size in the bootconfig
> footer is corrupted such that adding BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE wraps
> around (for instance, if size is 0xFFFFFFFF), the size check in
> load_xbc_from_initrd() can be bypassed:
> 
>     if (stat.st_size < size + BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE) {
>         pr_err("bootconfig size is too big\n");
>         return -E2BIG;
>     }
> 
> This would lead to load_xbc_fd() being called with a negative size,
> resulting in an undersized allocation, heap overflow on read, and
> out-of-bounds write on the terminating null byte.
> 
> Avoid the integer overflow by checking whether size is greater than
> stat.st_size - BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE. Since stat.st_size is already
> verified to be at least BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE earlier in the function,
> this subtraction will never underflow.
> 
> Fixes: 950313ebf79c ("tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig command")
> Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]>
> Closes: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.8-flash

OOps, I forgot to add:

Cc: [email protected]

Thanks,

> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/bootconfig/main.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/main.c b/tools/bootconfig/main.c
> index 7dc9fff9b637..b380ad6777fa 100644
> --- a/tools/bootconfig/main.c
> +++ b/tools/bootconfig/main.c
> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static int load_xbc_from_initrd(int fd, char **buf)
>       csum = le32toh(csum);
>  
>       /* Wrong size error  */
> -     if (stat.st_size < size + BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE) {
> +     if (size > stat.st_size - BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE) {
>               pr_err("bootconfig size is too big\n");
>               return -E2BIG;
>       }
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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