From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"linux-input@vger.kernel.org" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: input: powermate: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:48:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKdAkRTi-6jjMFnBAHk16O49xichGfhDsML5v7pwfs+VU5yUoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA5XPO8sQHi07kDSLR-EfocV7Kpqvu3aa1Qvy9Sq7Of=Dw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:12:53AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> The powermate driver expects at least one valid USB endpoint in its
>>> probe function. If given malicious descriptors that specify 0 for
>>> the number of endpoints, it will crash. Validate the number of
>>> endpoints on the interface before using them.
>>>
>>> The full report for this issue can be found here:
>>> http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/85
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Ralf Spenneberg <ralf@spenneberg.net>
>>> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/input/misc/powermate.c | 3 +++
>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> I'll queue these up after 4.6-rc1 is out as the merge window is closed
>> right now, but we might want to think about a better way to handle this
>> type of thing in the USB core. A way to keep from having to add checks
>> like this for every single driver, when the driver shouldn't even really
>> have their probe function called unless their expected endpoints are
>> going to be there.
>
> I thought this discussion came up a while ago, when something very
> similar was fixed in the whiteheat driver (commit cbb4be652d374). I
> can't find the thread at the moment, but I thought someone said this
> had to be per-driver for some reason. I'm more than happy to have a
> core subsystem fix if it's possible.
>
>> I'll think about that over the next few weeks...
>
> I have something around 8 drivers with issues like this. I think
> Oliver (now CC'd) is working from the same set of bugs. Should we
> hold off on submitting individual fixes until later, or should we go
> ahead and submit them?
I'll take input bits, there is no need to keep kernel oopsing while we
are working on a more general solution.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-14 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-14 14:12 [PATCH] USB: input: powermate: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors Josh Boyer
2016-03-14 16:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-14 16:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-03-14 16:46 ` Josh Boyer
2016-03-14 16:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2016-03-14 17:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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