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ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new() 

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Dan Rosenberg 2010-09-28 14:18:20 -04:00 committed by Takashi Iwai
parent e68d3b316a
commit 5591bf0722
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@ -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 */
@ -195,6 +196,10 @@ 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");