Medium · published November 5, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vboxvideo: Replace fake VLA at end of vbva_mouse_pointer_shape with real VLA
Replace the fake VLA at end of the vbva_mouse_pointer_shape shape with
a real VLA to fix a "memcpy: detected field-spanning write error" warning:
[ 13.319813] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 16896) of single field "p->data" at drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/hgsmi_base.c:154 (size 4)
[ 13.319841] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1105 at drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/hgsmi_base.c:154 hgsmi_update_pointer_shape+0x192/0x1c0 [vboxvideo]
[ 13.320038] Call Trace:
[ 13.320173] hgsmi_update_pointer_shape [vboxvideo]
[ 13.320184] vbox_cursor_atomic_update [vboxvideo]
Note as mentioned in the added comment it seems the original length
calculation for the allocated and send hgsmi buffer is 4 bytes too large.
Changing this is not the goal of this patch, so this behavior is kept.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | < 5.15.170 | 5.15.170 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.115 | 6.1.115 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.59 | 6.6.59 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.6 | 6.11.6 |
| linux/linux_kernel | all versions | — |