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ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new()
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:18:20 +0000 (14:18 -0400)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:08:06 +0000 (18:08 -0500)
commit 5591bf07225523600450edd9e6ad258bb877b779 upstream.

The snd_ctl_new() function in sound/core/control.c allocates space for a
snd_kcontrol struct by performing arithmetic operations on a
user-provided size without checking for integer overflow.  If a user
provides a large enough size, an overflow will occur, the allocated
chunk will be too small, and a second user-influenced value will be
written repeatedly past the bounds of this chunk.  This code is
reachable by unprivileged users who have permission to open
a /dev/snd/controlC* device (on many distros, this is group "audio") via
the SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD and SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
sound/core/control.c

index 439ce64f9d82edfcfdd867d152dc469969cc1ead..85abc465e20fe27bb33aba24659adb1c1ee9e488 100644 (file)
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 /* max number of user-defined controls */
 #define MAX_USER_CONTROLS      32
+#define MAX_CONTROL_COUNT      1028
 
 struct snd_kctl_ioctl {
        struct list_head list;          /* list of all ioctls */
@@ -191,6 +192,10 @@ static struct snd_kcontrol *snd_ctl_new(struct snd_kcontrol *control,
        
        if (snd_BUG_ON(!control || !control->count))
                return NULL;
+
+       if (control->count > MAX_CONTROL_COUNT)
+               return NULL;
+
        kctl = kzalloc(sizeof(*kctl) + sizeof(struct snd_kcontrol_volatile) * control->count, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (kctl == NULL) {
                snd_printk(KERN_ERR "Cannot allocate control instance\n");