Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Alan Cox napsal(a):
>>> I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
>>> CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.
>>>
>>> The issue is described here:
>>> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504
>>>
>>> Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon. I
>>> tried contacting the listed maintainer a few months ago but received
>>> no response.
>>
>> case MOXA_LOAD_BIOS:
>> case MOXA_FIND_BOARD:
>> case MOXA_LOAD_C320B:
>> case MOXA_LOAD_CODE:
>> if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
>> return -EPERM;
>> break;
>>
>> At the point you abuse these calls you can already just load arbitary
>> data from userspace anyway.
>
> The problem is that we BUG_ON, when len < 0 in copy_from_user which is unlikely
> something we want to cause?
>
> regards,
Right; the lack of input checking is most definitely a bug. It's no
longer a security issue, as a CAP_SYS_RAWIO check was added at some
point to the code path, but it's still a bug.
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