Re: [PATCH] cdc-acm: prevent infinite loop when parsing CDC headers.

[Adam Lee]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Quentin Casasnovas wrote:
> Phil and I found out a problem with commit:
> 
>   7e860a6e ("cdc-acm: add sanity checks")
> 
> It added some sanity checks to ignore potential garbage in CDC headers but
> also introduced a potential infinite loop.  This can happen at the first
> loop iteration (elength = 0 in that case) if the description isn't a
> DT_CS_INTERFACE or later if 'buffer[0]' is zero.
> 
> It should also be noted that the wrong length was being added to 'buffer'
> in case 'buffer[1]' was not a DT_CS_INTERFACE descriptor, since elength was
> assigned after that check in the loop.
> 
> A specially crafted USB device could be used to trigger this infinite loop.

Yes, "elength = buffer[0]" should be moved to the front of
USB_DT_CS_INTERFACE check, ACK this part.

But I don't know in what case the buffer[0] could be zero, if it
happens, better to set elength 1 then goto next_desc? (I'm not a
maintainer, pleas also consider others' opinion)

-- 
Adam Lee
http://adam8157.info
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