[PATCH] sctp: integer overflow in sctp_auth_create_key()

From: Xi Wang
Date: Tue Nov 22 2011 - 20:55:36 EST


The previous commit 30c2235c is incomplete and cannot prevent integer
overflows. For example, when key_len is 0x80000000 (INT_MAX + 1), the
left-hand side of the check, (INT_MAX - key_len), which is unsigned,
becomes 0xffffffff (UINT_MAX) and bypasses the check.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/auth.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/auth.c b/net/sctp/auth.c
index 865e68f..989e0fd 100644
--- a/net/sctp/auth.c
+++ b/net/sctp/auth.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static struct sctp_auth_bytes *sctp_auth_create_key(__u32 key_len, gfp_t gfp)
struct sctp_auth_bytes *key;

/* Verify that we are not going to overflow INT_MAX */
- if ((INT_MAX - key_len) < sizeof(struct sctp_auth_bytes))
+ if (key_len > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct sctp_auth_bytes))
return NULL;

/* Allocate the shared key */
--
1.7.5.4

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