[PATCH v2] tpm-dev-common: Reject too short writes

Alexander Steffen Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
Mon Sep 4 17:36:42 UTC 2017


tpm_transmit() does not offer an explicit interface to indicate the number
of valid bytes in the communication buffer. Instead, it relies on the
commandSize field in the TPM header that is encoded within the buffer.
Therefore, ensure that a) enough data has been written to the buffer, so
that the commandSize field is present and b) the commandSize field does not
announce more data than has been written to the buffer.

This should have been fixed with CVE-2011-1161 long ago, but apparently
a correct version of that patch never made it into the kernel.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com>
---
v2:
- Moved all changes to tpm_common_write in a single patch.

 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
index 610638a..ac25574 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ ssize_t tpm_common_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	if (atomic_read(&priv->data_pending) != 0)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	if (in_size > TPM_BUFSIZE)
+	if (in_size > sizeof(priv->data_buffer) || in_size < 6 ||
+	    in_size < be32_to_cpu(*((__be32 *) (buf + 2))))
 		return -E2BIG;
 
 	mutex_lock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
-- 
2.7.4

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