[alsa-devel] /proc/asound/card0/oss_mixer stack corruption

[Clemens Ladisch]

Tommi Rantala wrote:
> Trinity discovered that writing 128 bytes to
> /proc/asound/card0/oss_mixer triggers a stack corruption.
>
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8113c716>] __stack_chk_fail+0x16/0x20
>  [<ffffffff81e193ba>] snd_mixer_oss_proc_write+0x24a/0x270

snd_info_get_line() wants the len parameter to be one less than the
buffer size, but it isn't:

	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {

Not that *any* other caller got it correct either:

sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/core/pcm.c:	if (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line)))
sound/core/pcm_memory.c:	if (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/drivers/dummy.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ac97/ac97_proc.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_proc.c:        while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_proc.c:        while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_proc.c:        while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1x.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/emu10k1/emuproc.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/emu10k1/emuproc.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ice1712/pontis.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/ice1712/prodigy_hifi.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/lola/lola_proc.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr.c:	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {

Oh well.  At least these proc files are writable only by root, and the
fix is easy:

--8<---------------------------------------------------------------->8--
ALSA: core: fix buffer overflow in snd_info_get_line()

snd_info_get_line() documents that its last parameter must be one
less than the buffer size, but this API design guarantees that
(literally) every caller gets it wrong.

Just change this parameter to have its obvious meaning.

Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v2.2.26+
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
---
 sound/core/info.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/info.c
+++ b/sound/core/info.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ int snd_info_card_free(struct snd_card *card)
  * snd_info_get_line - read one line from the procfs buffer
  * @buffer: the procfs buffer
  * @line: the buffer to store
- * @len: the max. buffer size - 1
+ * @len: the max. buffer size
  *
  * Reads one line from the buffer and stores the string.
  *
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ int snd_info_get_line(struct snd_info_buffer *buffer, char *line, int len)
 			buffer->stop = 1;
 		if (c == '\n')
 			break;
-		if (len) {
+		if (len > 1) {
 			len--;
 			*line++ = c;
 		}