[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fix an OOB bug in parse_audio_mixer_unit

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:46:49PM -0400, Hui Peng wrote:
> The `uac_mixer_unit_descriptor` shown as below is read from the
> device side. In `parse_audio_mixer_unit`, `baSourceID` field is
> accessed from index 0 to `bNrInPins` - 1, the current implementation
> assumes that descriptor is always valid (the length  of descriptor
> is no shorter than 5 + `bNrInPins`). If a descriptor read from
> the device side is invalid, it may trigger out-of-bound memory
> access.
> 
> ```
> struct uac_mixer_unit_descriptor {
> 	__u8 bLength;
> 	__u8 bDescriptorType;
> 	__u8 bDescriptorSubtype;
> 	__u8 bUnitID;
> 	__u8 bNrInPins;
> 	__u8 baSourceID[];
> }
> ```
> 
> This patch fixes the bug by add a sanity check on the length of
> the descriptor.
> 
> CVE: CVE-2018-15117

FWIW, the correct CVE id should be probably CVE-2019-15117 here.

But there was already a patch queued and released in 5.2.10 and
4.19.68 for this issue (as far I can see; is this correct?)

Regards,
Salvatore