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| author | Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> | 2009-08-06 15:58:13 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-08-09 01:08:42 -0700 |
| commit | fdb8a42742ac95606668f73481dfb2f760658fdd (patch) | |
| tree | 5dd433f3190ba47117a7bc849b71eb38878e6c85 | |
| parent | 498cdbfbcf98e0d2c90a26e6a02a82f043876e48 (diff) | |
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x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init()
If the vendor name (from c16) can be longer than 100 bytes (or missing a
terminating null), then the null is written past the end of vendor[].
Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/efi.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c index 19ccf6d..fe26ba3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ void __init efi_init(void) */ c16 = tmp = early_ioremap(efi.systab->fw_vendor, 2); if (c16) { - for (i = 0; i < sizeof(vendor) && *c16; ++i) + for (i = 0; i < sizeof(vendor) - 1 && *c16; ++i) vendor[i] = *c16++; vendor[i] = '\0'; } else |