Commit 9c45f612 authored by Chris Wright's avatar Chris Wright

[PATCH] bridge: fix possible overflow in get_fdb_entries (CVE-2006-5751)

Make sure to properly clamp maxnum to avoid overflow (CVE-2006-5751).
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: default avatarEugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c929bdcb
......@@ -58,12 +58,13 @@ static int get_fdb_entries(struct net_bridge *br, void __user *userbuf,
{
int num;
void *buf;
size_t size = maxnum * sizeof(struct __fdb_entry);
size_t size;
if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
size = PAGE_SIZE;
/* Clamp size to PAGE_SIZE, test maxnum to avoid overflow */
if (maxnum > PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct __fdb_entry))
maxnum = PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct __fdb_entry);
}
size = maxnum * sizeof(struct __fdb_entry);
buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_USER);
if (!buf)
......
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