On 2020-11-30 11:04, Dan Carpenter wrote:
From: "kiyin(尹亮)" <ki...@tencent.com>

The .x25_addr[] address comes from the user and is not necessarily
NUL terminated.  This leads to a couple problems.  The first problem is
that the strlen() in x25_bind() can read beyond the end of the buffer.

The second problem is more subtle and could result in memory corruption.
The call tree is:
  x25_connect()
  --> x25_write_internal()
      --> x25_addr_aton()

The .x25_addr[] buffers are copied to the "addresses" buffer from
x25_write_internal() so it will lead to stack corruption.

The x25 protocol only allows 15 character addresses so putting a NUL
terminator as the 16th character is safe and obviously preferable to
reading out of bounds.


OK, I see the potential danger. I'm just wondering what is the better
approach here to counteract it:
1. check if the string is terminated or exceeds the maximum allowed
   length and report an error if necessary.
2. always terminate the string at byte 15 as you suggested.

Signed-off-by: "kiyin(尹亮)" <ki...@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
---

 net/x25/af_x25.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/x25/af_x25.c b/net/x25/af_x25.c
index 0bbb283f23c9..3180f15942fe 100644
--- a/net/x25/af_x25.c
+++ b/net/x25/af_x25.c
@@ -686,6 +686,8 @@ static int x25_bind(struct socket *sock, struct
sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
                goto out;
        }

+       addr->sx25_addr.x25_addr[X25_ADDR_LEN - 1] = '\0';
+
        /* check for the null_x25_address */
        if (strcmp(addr->sx25_addr.x25_addr, null_x25_address.x25_addr)) {

@@ -779,6 +781,7 @@ static int x25_connect(struct socket *sock, struct
sockaddr *uaddr,
                goto out;

        rc = -ENETUNREACH;
+       addr->sx25_addr.x25_addr[X25_ADDR_LEN - 1] = '\0';
        rt = x25_get_route(&addr->sx25_addr);
        if (!rt)
                goto out;

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