[PATCH] partitions: efi: fix GPT header size exceeding allocation size

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Tue Oct 22 10:06:55 PDT 2024


Hello Abdelrahman,

Thanks for your patch.

On 22.10.24 18:27, Abdelrahman Youssef wrote:
> The buffer gets allocated with the block device of size SECTOR_SIZE, but an

I guess you meant to say here "with the length of the block device's sector size".

> ill-formed GPT header_size may exceed it resulting in heap-overflow.

Nice catch. Been there since nearly 10 years too:

Fixes: 760689e5ccf1 ("disk: partitions: add EFI GUID Partition Table")

> Signed-off-by: Abdelrahman Youssef <abdelrahmanyossef12 at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Cheers,
Ahmad

> ---
>  common/partitions/efi.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/common/partitions/efi.c b/common/partitions/efi.c
> index 829360da6e..9a04b7014d 100644
> --- a/common/partitions/efi.c
> +++ b/common/partitions/efi.c
> @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(struct block_device *blk, u64 lba,
>  		goto fail;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_size) > bdev_logical_block_size(blk))
> +		goto fail;
> +
>  	/* Check the GUID Partition Table CRC */
>  	origcrc = le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->header_crc32);
>  	(*gpt)->header_crc32 = 0;


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