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staging: ncpfs: memory corruption in ncp_read_kernel()

If the server is malicious then *bytes_read could be larger than the
size of the "target" buffer.  It would lead to memory corruption when we
do the memcpy().

Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 7 years ago
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      drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c

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drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c

@@ -981,6 +981,10 @@ ncp_read_kernel(struct ncp_server *server, const char *file_id,
 		goto out;
 	}
 	*bytes_read = ncp_reply_be16(server, 0);
+	if (*bytes_read > to_read) {
+		result = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	source = ncp_reply_data(server, 2 + (offset & 1));
 
 	memcpy(target, source, *bytes_read);