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* [PATCH 2/3] lz4: ensure length does not wrap
@ 2014-07-01 21:22 Holger Schurig
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From: Holger Schurig @ 2014-07-01 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Note: this is the same as 206204a1162b995e2185275167b22468c00d6b36 in
linux-git.

Given some pathologically compressed data, lz4 could possibly decide to
wrap a few internal variables, causing unknown things to happen.  Catch
this before the wrapping happens and abort the decompression.

Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com>
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.de>
---
 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
index 8e64ce6..75cf08b 100644
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
+++ b/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ static int lz4_uncompress(const char *source, char *dest, int osize)
 			len = *ip++;
 			for (; len == 255; length += 255)
 				len = *ip++;
+			if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + len)))
+				goto _output_error;
 			length += len;
 		}
 
-- 
1.8.5.2


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