Re: [Patch] Fix Buffer overflow in hfsplus with a corrupted image

[Pekka Enberg]

Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Pekka Enberg (penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > when an hfsplus image gets corrupted it might happen that the catalog
> > > namelength field gets b0rked. If we mount such an image
> > > the memcpy() in hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() writes more than the 255
> > > that fit in the name field. Depending on the size of the overwritten
> > > data, we either only get memory corruption or also trigger an oops like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > --- linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c.orig     2008-08-24 14:52:03.000000000 +0200
> > > +++ linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c  2008-08-24 14:54:15.000000000 +0200
> > > @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ int hfsplus_find_cat(struct super_block
> > >                return -EIO;
> > >        }
> > >
> > > +       if (be16_to_cpu(tmp.thread.nodeName.length) >= 127) {
> > > +               printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: catalog name length corrupted\n");
> > > +               return -EIO;
> > > +       }
> > So, where does this 127 come from? I can only find reference to a
> > maximum length of 255 unicode characters (16 bits per character) in
> > the following technical note for HFS+ (see sections "HFS Plus Names"
> > and "Catalog Thread Records"):
> >
> >   http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html
> >
> > Hmm?
>
> Ah, i missed that the name array is __be16, i somehow assumed it was a
> char array, and tried to account for the multiplication by 2 in 
> hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni(). here is an updated fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
>
> --- linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c.orig	2008-08-24 14:52:03.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c	2008-08-24 14:54:15.000000000 +0200
> @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ int hfsplus_find_cat(struct super_block 
>  		return -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (be16_to_cpu(tmp.thread.nodeName.length) > 255) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: catalog name length corrupted\n");
> +		return -EIO;
> +	}
> +
>  	hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni(fd->search_key, be32_to_cpu(tmp.thread.parentID),
>  				 &tmp.thread.nodeName);
>  	return hfs_brec_find(fd);

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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