Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: yurex: Fix buffer over-read in yurex_write()

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On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 04:15 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:44 PM Ben Hutchings
> <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > @@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ static ssize_t yurex_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buffer,
> >                 retval = -EFAULT;
> >                 goto error;
> >         }
> > +       buffer[count] = 0;
> >         memset(dev->cntl_buffer, CMD_PADDING, YUREX_BUF_SIZE);
> > 
> >         switch (buffer[0]) {
> 
> By the way: A little bit below here, there's some other line that looks bogus:
> 
> > buffer[6] = CMD_EOF;
> 
> AFAICS that should probably go into ->cntl_buffer; `buffer` and `data`
> aren't used below that point. But that'd just be a functional bug, not
> security-relevant, so I'm not sure whether anyone cares.

Yes I noticed that too.  Since I can't test with the actual hardware, I
left it alone.  For all I know, the firmware actually expects
CMD_PADDING and not CMD_EOF at the end of this command.

Ben.

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