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Timo Warnstorvalds
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fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops
The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c) contains a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted GUID partition tables. This bug has security impacts, because it allows, for example, to prepare a storage device that crashes a kernel subsystem upon connecting the device (e.g., a "USB Stick of (Partial) Death"). crc = efi_crc32((const unsigned char *) (*gpt), le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_size)); computes a CRC32 checksum over gpt covering (*gpt)->header_size bytes. There is no validation of (*gpt)->header_size before the efi_crc32 call. A corrupted partition table may have large values for (*gpt)->header_size. In this case, the CRC32 computation access memory beyond the memory allocated for gpt, which may cause a kernel heap overflow. Validate value of GUID partition table header size. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout and indenting] Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fs/partitions/efi.c

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@@ -310,6 +310,15 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(struct parsed_partitions *state, u64 lba,
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goto fail;
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/* Check the GUID Partition Table header size */
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if (le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_size) >
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bdev_logical_block_size(state->bdev)) {
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pr_debug("GUID Partition Table Header size is wrong: %u > %u\n",
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le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_size),
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bdev_logical_block_size(state->bdev));
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goto fail;
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}
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/* Check the GUID Partition Table CRC */
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origcrc = le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_crc32);
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(*gpt)->header_crc32 = 0;

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