CVE-2021-47288

media: ngene: Fix out-of-bounds bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf()

published May 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
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Percentile
13.5
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Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: ngene: Fix out-of-bounds bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf()

Fix an 11-year old bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf() while

addressing the following warnings caught with -Warray-bounds:

arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:22:16: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [12, 16] from the object at 'com' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'config' with type 'unsigned char' at offset 10 [-Warray-bounds]

arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:182:25: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [12, 16] from the object at 'com' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'config' with type 'unsigned char' at offset 10 [-Warray-bounds]

The problem is that the original code is trying to copy 6 bytes of

data into a one-byte size member _config_ of the wrong structue

FW_CONFIGURE_BUFFERS, in a single call to memcpy(). This causes a

legitimate compiler warning because memcpy() overruns the length

of &com.cmd.ConfigureBuffers.config. It seems that the right

structure is FW_CONFIGURE_FREE_BUFFERS, instead, because it contains

6 more members apart from the header _hdr_. Also, the name of

the function ngene_command_config_free_buf() suggests that the actual

intention is to ConfigureFreeBuffers, instead of ConfigureBuffers

(which takes place in the function ngene_command_config_buf(), above).

Fix this by enclosing those 6 members of struct FW_CONFIGURE_FREE_BUFFERS

into new struct config, and use &com.cmd.ConfigureFreeBuffers.config as

the destination address, instead of &com.cmd.ConfigureBuffers.config,

when calling memcpy().

This also helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable

-Warray-bounds and get us closer to being able to tighten the

FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
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CVSS v4.0
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EPSS
0.00234 · 13.5th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T14:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 MAY 14:34Z
    media: ngene: Fix out-of-bounds bug in ngene_command_config_free_buf()
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