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[PATCH v5 03/15] binfmt_flat: prevent kernel dammage from corrupted executable headers

From: Nicolas Pitre <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-24 15:30:38
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml
Subsystem: exec & binfmt api, elf, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Kees Cook, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted>
---
 fs/binfmt_flat.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index c3ccdefdea..03301bad1f 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -466,6 +466,17 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Make sure the header params are sane.
+	 * 28 bits (256 MB) is way more than reasonable in this case.
+	 * If some top bits are set we have probable binary corruption.
+	*/
+	if ((text_len | data_len | bss_len | stack_len | full_data) >> 28) {
+		pr_err("bad header\n");
+		ret = -ENOEXEC;
+		goto err;
+	}
+
+	/*
 	 * fix up the flags for the older format,  there were all kinds
 	 * of endian hacks,  this only works for the simple cases
 	 */
-- 
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