On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 05:37:37AM +0800, nan chen wrote:
> Looks like the judgment of len <sizeof(valid_accm) has a problem.
> The judgment cannot avoid the memory overflow of the memcpy below.
>                         case LCP_OPTION_ACCM: /* async control character
> map */
> +                               if (len < sizeof(valid_accm))
> +                                       goto err_out;
> Assume that the initial value of len is 10.Then the length of 'out' memory
> is 10.
> And assume the value of opt[1] in each loop is 2.
> Then it will loop 3 times.
> 3 times memcpy will cause the 'out' memory to be overwritten by 18 bytes (
> > 10 bytes). This will be memory overflow.
> 
> I think the correct way is to judge the value of opt[1] like this:
> .                        case LCP_OPTION_ACCM: /* async control character
> map */
> +                               if (opt[1] < sizeof(valid_accm))
> +                                       goto err_out;
> 

Yeah.  You're right.  The "nak_len" count would grow faster than it
should leading to memory corruption.  I'll resend.

regards,
dan carpenter

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