Bug 732869 (CVE-2011-3191) - CVE-2011-3191 kernel: cifs: signedness issue in CIFSFindNext()
Summary: CVE-2011-3191 kernel: cifs: signedness issue in CIFSFindNext()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-3191
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 730354 732471 732870 732873 733154 737482 748683 761363
Blocks: 732735
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-24 02:22 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-11 18:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-05-10 08:23:52 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1386 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2011-10-20 17:28:15 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1465 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-11-22 21:45:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0010 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2012-01-11 01:14:23 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-08-24 02:22:05 UTC
The name_len variable in CIFSFindNext is a signed int that gets set to the resume_name_len in the cifs_search_info. The resume_name_len however is unsigned and for some infolevels is populated directly from a 32 bit value sent by the server.

If the server sends a very large value for this, then that value could look negative when converted to a signed int. That would make that value pass the PATH_MAX check later in CIFSFindNext. The name_len would then be used as a length value for a memcpy. It would then be treated as unsigned again, and the memcpy scribbles over a ton of memory.

Fix this by making the name_len an unsigned value in CIFSFindNext.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-cifs/msg03950.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Darren Lavender for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-08-24 02:30:14 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. It has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is now in Production 3 of the maintenance life-cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/, therefore the fix for this issue is not currently planned to be included in the future updates.

Comment 13 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-10-03 03:07:07 UTC
Upstream commit: 9438fabb73eb48055b58b89fc51e0bc4db22fabd

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-10-20 17:28:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:1386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html

Comment 15 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-10-25 03:54:11 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 748683]

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2011-11-22 16:50:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1465 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-10 20:16:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2012:0010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html


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